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“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

— Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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Girl Reading (Georges d'Espagnat, 1870 - 1950)

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Corey Brickley

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After many springs by Langston Hughes

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“Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You and Only You

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Every single day

i'm not okay but i'll pretend to be okay

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somewhere between sad and tired

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“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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“You have a strange face. Uncommon. Plain, but fascinating. It has a beautiful turbulence hidden in it. I love it. I bet you have brilliant dreams. I bet you dream of other worlds.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force, but through persistence.”

— Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto

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The Mosaic Floor (1995)

— by Ralph Heimans

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“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”

— Betty Smith

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“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn’t make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”

— R.M. Drake

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“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.”

— Franz Kafka

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