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29 August 1904 James Joyce to Nora Barnacle Joyce Letters of James Joyce [originally published 1966]

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ruchita, excerpt from i miss us

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He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.

Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I’m not afraid to love, I’m afraid of not being loved back.”

— Unknown

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“There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote to keep you alive.”

— Juansen Dizon

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being known is being loved

“i know your pizza order” “you have freckles on your ears” “you make this face when you’re tired” “you order green tea on a good day black on a bad day” “you always make that face before you try something” “the tips of your ears turn red when you’re angry” “i knew you’d say something” “you must be exhausted to miss the class” “your favorite pie is pumpkin, right?” “i know your phone number, don’t worry” “you miss me, i can tell” “you fiddle with your pens when you’re bored” “you don’t like converse unless they’re high tops” “your favorite cereal is cinnamon toast crunch and you first ate it when you were 8”

being known is being loved.

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"‌I am not ruined. I am ruination."

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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-🌫️A.D.S.L.

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Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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The Kiss Quotient (2018)

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-Benedict Smith, I wish I wrote the way I thought

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Robert Jordan

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“I don’t know whether I feel better, or I’ve become numb. But there is peace in being sure, even in being sure of some great fatality or refusal. I think I feel better. I look at everything from the other end—instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn