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“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be.

If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one's love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Only their children return; only the future revisits the past.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“What we’ll always have is something we lost”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“I'm back inside
my head
where it's safe.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“i could not speak so i wrote myself into silence”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“nobody's free without breaking open”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“you're smiling because the stars
are just stars & you know

we'll only live once
this time”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“our present tense
was not too late”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Because this mess I made I made with love. Because they came into my life, these ghosts, like something poured. Because crying, believe it or not, did wonders.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“I used to cry in a genre no one read.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“What if it wasn't the crash that made us, but the debris?”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“The most beautiful part of your body

is where it's headed. & remember,

loneliness is still time spent

with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“They say the earth spins and that’s why we fall but everyone knows it’s the music.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“If words, as they claimed, had no weight
in our world, why did we keep
sinking, Doctor—I mean
Lord—why did the water swallow
our almost human hands
as we sang?”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I imagine Van Gogh singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into his cut ear & feeling peace.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“Because I stopped apologizing into visibility.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in words so long as I scatter them through my body; to read your letters is to gather flowers from within myself, pluck a blossom here, a fern there, arrange and rearrange them in ways to suit a sunny room.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“You gave me so much—a history, a future, a calm that lets me write these words though I’m breaking. I hope I’ve given you something in return—I think you would want me to know I have. And what we’ve done will stand, no matter how they weave the world against us. It’s done now, and forever.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”
― Emily Dickinson

“We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.”
― Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic

“We are only as blind as we want to be.”
― Maya Angelou

“It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger