Most people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit-but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference.
LANG LEAVIn many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.
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The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
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But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
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Knowing sleep will set it right – if you were not to wake.
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Loving you is like being ten years old again, scaling a tree with my eyes bright and skyward, wanting only to get higher and higher, without a thought of how I would get back down.
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It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
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The only ones they can turn against you are those who were never with you.
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I can’t believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It’s like I’ve been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.
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I used to think I couldn’t go a day without your smile. Without telling you things and hearing your voice back.
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She was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said.
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Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who breaks it.
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We spoke once about lovers who kept finding each other, no matter how many times the world came between them. And I think I had to break your heart, and you had to break mine. How else could we know the worth of what we were given?
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I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
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You said my sadness was like the sun, beautiful from a distance but it hurt you too much to come closer.
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He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn’t stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for-lost in an instant-to the enormity of what I felt.
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There is a savagery to what you feel. It eats you up inside. But you will get through it; you don’t need his mouth to placate you. You don’t need his hands to untangle the butterfly knot in your heart. Your love is a fire that will burn itself out. Let it ravage you.
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