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“I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence.”
― José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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sunalma · 1 day
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“But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.”
― David Cronenberg, Consumed
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Unknown Origin
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sunalma · 2 days
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“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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sunalma · 2 days
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“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass or unholy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a man, tender and brutal in equal measure, and perhaps in doing so I will justify myself to you. To my own haunted conscience.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood
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sunalma · 2 days
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“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”
― José Saramago, Blindness
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sunalma · 2 days
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“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of debts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood
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sunalma · 2 days
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"Quickly, I became a disappointment: small, slight. I was not fast. I was not strong. I could not sing. The best that could be said of me was that I was not sickly."
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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sunalma · 2 days
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“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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“Just don't look so hard toward the future that you forget the people you want in it.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist
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“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet
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sunalma · 2 days
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“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness
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sunalma · 2 days
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“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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sunalma · 2 days
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“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
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"Your hands are scarred from murder and yet I trust them completely"
― Unknown Origin
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