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"The amount of cursing is ridiculous, x.x reminds me of locke lamora...I understand the need to convey the environment and the characters etc... But god this is getting annoying." — Sep 26, 2017 03:11PM
"The amount of cursing is ridiculous, x.x reminds me of locke lamora...I understand the need to convey the environment and the characters etc... But god this is getting annoying." — Sep 26, 2017 03:11PM
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
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“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
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