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She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering. ↗

— Tess Thompson

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[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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For a short time, we’d become each other, a little. Maybe that’s what people do when they fall in love, mind, body, and soul. Or maybe we were just weird. ↗

— Jeri Smith-Ready

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Hesia was right. The real test of person is whether they can see past the names and labels." His gaze was steady."I've seen you. You laugh, you fear, you cry, you love. You're as human as me, Na'Chi ↗

— Kylie Griffin

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I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough ↗

— Sebastian Barry

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I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-con #love

We are all children of a God who knows us, loves us, and is there for us, especially in our sorrow and suffering. To be separated from Him is to be lost. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

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He was a boy, she was a girl Can I make it any more obvious He was a punk, and she did ballet, What more can I say He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well, All of her friends stuck up their nose, They didn't like his baggy clothes He was a sk8er boi, she said see you later boy, he wasn't good enough for her ↗

— Avril Lavigne

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live well laugh often and love much ↗

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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