It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose;...
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Lang Leav
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Ingrid Bergman
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover,...
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William Shakespeare
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.
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Maggi Richard
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
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Jandy Nelson
More Quotes By William Giraldi
We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human – what Lesser means by “grandeur and intimacy” – and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid...
Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn’t a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on God because he...
I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.
Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character– Philip Larkin is Exhibit A–nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
