It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better. Zelda Fitzgerald
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  1. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  2. I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

  3. I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

  4. And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  5. .. . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

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