One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you...
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Shauna Niequist
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...
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Emma Thompson
The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
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Maria V. Snyder
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
More Quotes By Rachel Hartman
How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.' I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.
I had felt the shot coming; I hadn’t realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?
The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I'd hurt, people I'd failed, people who thought me a monster. Here there was no monster greater...
I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have...
This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.
