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"a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
-- robert frost
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Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.
Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
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Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse
Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
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She had learned over the years that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.
Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
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That was how she had felt most of her life.
Caught in the middle. Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
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Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.
Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
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Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail.
Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
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That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.
Madeline Miller, Circe
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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou (Letter to My Daughter)
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One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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We are all someone's monster.
Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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