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“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
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burntsiennaworld · 2 years
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 ―Izumi Shikibu, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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“Where could I rest but your hurricane?
—Erica Jong, from Insomnia & Poetry
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“You're the only person I've ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”
—Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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—Eisha Tandon, from "A poem for a moment with you"
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burntsiennaworld · 2 years
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Emery Allen, "Become"
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burntsiennaworld · 2 years
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz, "To the Desert"
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“I have belong to you since the beginning, since before I even knew that I did.”
—L.H. Cosway
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“Break my heart, break it a thousand times, it was only ever yours to break anyway.”
—Maxon, The Selection
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“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
―John Green, The Fault in Our Stars.
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“And who here is not buried in another person’s heart?”
—Richard Jackson from “Filling in the Graves at a Cherokee Site”
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burntsiennaworld · 2 years
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“I still my heart and I can hear you.”
—Rustin Larson, from "Damaged Enough," Bum Cantos, Winter Jazz, & The Collected Discography of Morning (Blue Light Press, 2013)
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burntsiennaworld · 2 years
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“You give me a tremendous desire to love.”
—Hiroshima Mon Amour, dir. by Alain Resnais
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“I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. I've woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.”
—Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to Vera
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burntsiennaworld · 2 years
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And if the devil was to ever see you, he'd kiss your eyes and repent.
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“I thought I would be understood without words.”
—Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to Theo Van Gogh
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