“Who, being loved, is poor?”
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman Of Importance.
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Rati Saxena, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Mountain nights"
[Text ID: “Last night / there was a dream / And / In the dream? You / You / You / And / Only you”]
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V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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love changes you
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“And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal. Enter into happiness, and burst.”
— Mahmoud Darwish
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“I need a life that isn't just about needing to escape my life.”
– Roberto Polito
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“There's a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn't mean love at first sight. It's closer to love at second sight. It's the feeling when you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don't love them right away, but it's inevitable that you will.”
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star.
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“And I, who looked for only God, found you.”
— Onions and Roses, The Protestant Cemetery in Florence” by Vassar Miller.
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“I was happy three days ago. Today I'm depressed. What happened? Nothing. An inner crutch slipped. Some poorly suppressed memory rose to the surface.”
— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh).
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I hope you guys like…eventually live the life you want to live and I hope nothing haunts you for too long and I hope you’re all kind to yourselves
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Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"
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Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"
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I really like the word “smitten”. because at first glance you just think of sappy lovey-dovey stuff but also you have to remember this is a word that’s born of the word “smite.” a devastating word. a word that, summarized, means stricken. smitten means stricken as well — struck with devastating affection.
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