wordsintheattic

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That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

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“A single tear is worth the wisdom of thousand smiles.”

—wordsintheattic, an excerpt from the novel I am writing

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“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”

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“If our styles of looking become beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary.

—John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

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“Dead doesn't mean gone.”

- Flora, Haunting of Bly Manor

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“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.”

—Heidi Priebe

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“Home is the first grave.”

— Fatimah Asghar, from “How’d Your Parents Die Again?” published in The New York Times Magazine

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“Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.”

— H.L. Menken

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“In order to make a relationship last, you really have to flow with a person as they change. Give them space. My friend always told me about his grandfather who was with his wife for 60 years before she passed. His grandfather said that through all that time, his wife changed so much it felt like he had been with 8 different people by the end. But he said the secret to making it last was that through all those changes, he never suffocated his wife with his own idea of who he expected her to be. Rather he loved, fully, every new woman she became.”

— Amanda Rose, Src. Themindsjournal

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“The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness’ sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it’s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.”

—The Great Kamryn

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“I’m not anymore surprised by people who leave, but by the ones who stay.”

—Kirsten Corley

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“Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.”

—Kate Jacobs; Comfort Food

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“The role of the lover is exactly the same as artist. If I love you, I must make you aware of the things you do not see.”

— James Baldwin

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“All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.”

— Amanda Rose

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“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flame”

— Rumi

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“I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

—From the Poem Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats.

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“I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.”

— Edward Abbey// Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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