
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
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“It is a blessing to be the color of earth
do you know how often flowers confuse me for home”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
do you know how often flowers confuse me for home”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“I like my hair messy. My love wild. And my sex aggressive. But I’m still a sensitive woman, just with passion.”
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“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― Conversations with James Baldwin
― Conversations with James Baldwin
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