You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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