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[that1depressedreader]

We are all just sitting in our own little bedrooms all across the world with our headphones on listening to our little songs aren't we?

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He took another breath. 'Because I love you, Josephine March. I always have, and I always will. I think you know that, because I think you love me, too. I read your book, Jo. It's all in there. The two of us. We're meant to be together.

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"I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday."

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

[that1depressedreader]

Aren't we all starving -

just for different hearts?

-Laura Chouette

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"I want to be a mystery, yet to be known.

I want to be together, yet alone.

Is it too much to ask, to be famous yet

unknown?

To be wanderer, yet have a home."

-Kara Douglas

[that1depressedreader]

The woods are lovely,

dark and deep,

But I have promises

to keep,

And miles to go

before I sleep.

Robert Frost

[that1depressedreader]

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

[that1depressedreader]

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

[that1depressedreader]

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

[that1depressedreader]

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

[that1depressedreader]

Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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"How many times can the same thing break your heart?"

As long as you love it.

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"Understand me. I'm

not like an ordinary world.

I have my madness, I live

in another dimension and

I do not have time for

things that have no soul."

- Charles Bukowski

[that1depressedreader]

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

Khaled Hosseini

[that1depressedreader]

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[that1depressedreader]

Some things come with their own punishments.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[that1depressedreader]

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things