I release you, my beautiful and terrible
fear. I release you. You were my beloved
and hated twin, but now, I don’t know you
as myself. I release you with all the
pain I would know at the death of
my children.You are not my blood anymore.
— Joy Harjo, from “I Give You Back,” Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
“You’ll break your own heart if you fall in love with ideas and not people.”— Bridgett Devoue
“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”— Sarah Addison Allen
“You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”— Neil Gaiman
“Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.”— Kurt Vonnegut
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”— Mary Anne Radmacher (via resqectable)
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”— Haruki Murakami
“Some things go too deep to be forgotten.”— John Galsworthy
“One can say anything to language. This is why it is a listener, closer to us than any silence or any god.”
— John Berger, “The Hour of Poetry” (1982)
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