March 2012
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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.
– Jane Fonda
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...
– Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens Of Titan
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When I Was A Romantic
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When I was a romantic everything was important. I wrote letters by hand and mailed them with stamps scrounged from the bottom of the drawer. I signed my real name with a pen given to me by my grandfather.
When I was a romantic I drank more tea than wine and anticipation was my greatest pleasure. I kissed for hours without undoing a button.
I waited to say I love you until the...
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Just so you know, there are certain people who were put here to break you. So...
– I Wrote This For You: The Importance Of Breaking Things And People
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught...
– Ronald Dahl
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Sometimes I wonder if my whole life will pass by this way: me waiting in the...
– Sarah Okler, Fixing Delilah
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Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
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Saudade (European Portuguese: [sɐwˈðaðɨ], Brazilian Portuguese: [sawˈdadʒi], Galician: [sawˈðaðe]; plural saudades)[1] is a unique Galician-Portuguese word that has no immediate translation in English. Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return....
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Patience was never my strong-suit.
I much prefer urgency;
the a-s-a-p,
s-t-a-t.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
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If there’s someone you absolutley miss, you might find yourself talking to...
– —Matt Berninger
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