"[W]hen you're my age you'll see that the world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that -- not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts. I don't know you well enough to say, but I should guess you might be a little inclined to -- when one's young and attractive -- I'm going to say it! -- everything's at one's feet."
~Virignia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)
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People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.
~ Nikita Gill
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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
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— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)
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"All articulate thought had long ago deserted her; her heart seemed to have grown to the size of a sun, and to illuminate her entire body, shedding like the sun a steady tide of warmth."
~ Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)
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–Palestinian poet and editor of Mizna, George Abraham.
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The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and being loved when they are fake.
~ Bob Marley
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