The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of mutuality, the gift of understanding that we all share the same scars, though we often try to hide them. Be the renegade who rolls up your sleeves and exposes your scabs, be the person who shows someone that they are not the only one experiencing…
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Quotes tagged ‘Beautiful Writing’
We’re not star-crossed, but we can still wrap ourselves in the seams of a quilted universe that we didn’t stitch.
Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder.
A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. A vocabulary, god damnit, that makes my vacuous sophistry a cheap trick.
I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
Next year we will sit on the porch and count migrating birds. Children on vacation will play catch between the house and the fields. Red grapes will ripen till the evening, and will be served chilled to the table. You will yet see, you will yet see, how good it will be next year. Next year we will s…