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3 weeks ago

"I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself." - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

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3 weeks ago

"Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

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1 year ago

“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”

May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems

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3 weeks ago

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour." - Jennifer Saint, Elektra

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1 year ago

Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

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1 year ago

"It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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1 year ago

"Day by day, the leaves of the trees along the streets turned to gold. It delighted me to see how well the changing colors matched the slow transformation happening inside me." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)

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1 year ago

"...we knew we were lucky to live there. Or we thought we knew anyway; you can never know how lucky you are to have something until it's taken away." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra

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lavenderhayes

1 year ago

"But, I don't know, maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life to figure out a small part of it." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)

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1 year ago