February 2012
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“When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe...”
– Sufjan Stevens
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When people change, and you remain the same. They blame you for disappointing them.
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“I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a...”
– Hudson Taylor
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“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
– Heraclitus
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
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“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy
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Valentine’s Day in 2008 was hard to forget. I remember the night before I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning cutting out paper hearts, outlining and writing phrases/lyrics/quotes on them. Some were clichés like, “Someone’s watching over you.” But I also remember writing Incubus’ and Ray Lamontagne’s lyrics on some of these paper hearts: “Even...
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“As for clouds,
as for those white, voluptuous
abstractions floating overhead,...”
– Linda Pastan, from “All I Want to Say”
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“trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars...”
– e.e. cummings
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“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“I grew up watching your hands
arrange space,
so I find it very natural
that...”
– Dorothea Grossman
