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In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#emotion #fiction #poems #poetry #reading

And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless. ↗

— Carmen DeSousa

#forever #happily-ever-after #life #novel #life

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#happiness-life #law-of-attraction-books #motivational-books #positive-mindset #life

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#looking-back #punishments #remorse #undo-past-mistakes #undone

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost ↗

— Greg Hamerton

#fantasy-fiction #life #music #zarost #life

....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others. ↗

— Leif Enger

#life

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all. ↗

— Lisa Gardner

#life #lisa-gardner #quotes #life

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life. ↗

— Masha Hamilton

#life

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #outlook #perspective #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#love #life