♣ Once you lose yourself you’re left with two choices; find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be, the person you wanted to be, the person you are.♣
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♣ "Love became her terrible habit, something hopeless to resist, impossible to get right. In the end she would find it, the one that she knew was forever, but that one became the most impossible of all. She was searching for something in her new surroundings, without and within, but finding it was something else." ♣
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♣ "We were quiet. There was nothing left of anything.Am I them? They occasionally try to include me in a conversation, but it's clear they don't know what to make of me. I look over and smile when one of them makes a joke that is laughed at by all. They laugh, I chuckle - not too much, I don't want to seem overeager, but enough to say 'I hear you. I laugh with you. I share in the moment.' But when the chuckling is over, I am still apart, something else, and no one is sure what I am."♣
:: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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♣ You want nothing when you are trying to forget the something that is everything. ♣
:: Wasteland
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♣ "She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that." ♣
:: A Girl I Knew
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♣ "She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."
:: Strange Little Girls
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♣ "At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend;Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without a fire. For the clear voice suddenly singing,the handshake, the cough, the kiss, there is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this." ♣
::At Last d Secret is Out
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♣ I was there. You were there. And so we were there. No more, nothing less. But that was enough to call that day. I guess you were missed that much. ♣
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♣ "He did not feel fear or nostalgia, but an intestinal rage at the idea that this artificial death would not let him see the end of so many things that he had left unfinished." ♣
:: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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♣ Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.♣
:: Kiran Desai
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♣ "Every once in a while, people step up. They rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you, and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough, you can find hope in the words of children, in the bars of the song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you're lucky, if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back." ♣
:: Nathan Scott, OTH