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“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
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“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
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when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
―
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