Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
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Tessa Dare
How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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Markus Zusak
Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause.
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Ankita Singhal
How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill–more of each than you have–inspiration work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity… Breathe with unconditional breath...
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Wendell Berry
That kiss you gave me was the hottest kiss i've ever had. I pulled away because i was afraid i wouldn't be able to stop myself from ripping off your clothes. And that didn't seem like the right way to end a first date. I...
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Michele Jaffe
More Quotes By Joan Didion
Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.
I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the...
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
