#rainsofwords

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and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking.

Mary Oliver, Red Bird

[bluepandapoet]

I wish that every time a great line is written by some unknown writer, a new star is forged in the sky to burn for them.

You will be surprised to see such a night sky, overflowing with stars.

Then I'll ask you, "Why are you crying?"

-Bluepandapoet

@writerscreed

[blueacademiablog]

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Tyler Kent White (via surqrised)

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

— John Milton, Paradise Lost

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it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Mary Oliver, Red Bird

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“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”

— Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

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When I think of death it is a bright enough city,

Mary Oliver, Red Bird

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It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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There are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them.

Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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It is not down on any map; true places never are.

— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

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She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.

Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

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To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose

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I would have taken a bullet for you. It just never crossed my mind that you would be the one to shoot.

Ramayana Roxas, At 23

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Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.

Emily Henry, Book Lovers