"The Sun Shone In Their Eyes, Half Blinding Them And Turning Their World To Liquid Gold." - Neil Gaiman,
"The sun shone in their eyes, half blinding them and turning their world to liquid gold." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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“Human lives are based on pain. But to have a few moments of happiness, lightnings tearing the darkness of the sky, that is worth it.”
- Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"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)
"...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
Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird
"We're still friends. I just can't trust her or tell her anything important." - Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself." - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"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)
“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
