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“It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was a dreamer, and you were a traveler. We met at the crossroads. I saw love in your smile, and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch, and I was already home”

— Lang Leav, The Universe of Us

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“Yes, it is important to be soft and kind in the world, but it is necessary also to know when to draw swords, when to fight tooth and claw for what you believe in and love, to balance the shadow in your heart with the light. As the rose is a rose for both its flower and thorns, the complete human soul is both devil and god.”

— Beau Taplin • D e v i l  a n d  G o d 

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“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”

— Warsan Shire

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“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.”

— Haruki Murakami

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“Sometimes you pour your heart out and nothing comes back. Sometimes you pour your heart out and the world falls onto your lap. Keep trying.”

— N.M.Sanchez

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“Look at how unlikely our meeting was. Look at the vastness of the universe encompassing all the things we don’t know and the things we think we know. Look at me, at us, together – here and now. Isn’t this some form of a miracle?”

— N.M.Sanchez

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“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

— The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

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May your bookshelves be full and your tea always warm.

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“Popularity Does Not Equal Value.”

— Most people think popular things are more valuable, the stuff right in front of their face that everyone else seems to like. I guarantee people once over looked the greatest bands of all time when they first started out playing in dive bars. I guarantee they didn’t look twice at a masterpiece until the artist died and someone else told them it was great art. I guarantee they overlooked profoundly written words on a scrap piece of paper until it was in a published in a popular book. Some of the greatest things are overlooked because they aren’t in the limelight. Value is not measured by popularity, and this includes your own. -L o t u s