You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
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Stewart Onan
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
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Deborah Reber
To love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit...
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Ellen Bass
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Real isn't how you are made, ' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''Does it hurt?' asked the...
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Margery Williams Bianco
More Quotes By Jean Giraudoux
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, ’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer...
