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“I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegance and euphoria," and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet. For once, I don't want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundered different people most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesn't worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs - here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“Before I ended up in this dungeon of the world,
I was with you all the time.
How I wish I’d never fallen into
this earthly trap.
I kept telling you over and over again:
“I’m perfectly happy here.
I don’t want to go anywhere.
To travel from this exaltation down to earth
is just too difficult a journey."
You sent me anyway:
“Go, don’t be scared.
No harm will come to you.
I will always be with you."
You persuaded me by saying:
“If you go, you’ll gain new experiences.
You’ll progress on your path.
You’ll be far more mature
when you come back home."
I replied: “O Essence of Knowledge,
What good is all this learning and information without you?
Who could leave you for knowledge,
unless he has no knowledge of you?"
When I drink wine from your hand,
I haven’t a care in the world.
I become drunk and happy.
I couldn’t care less about gain or loss,
or people’s good or bad features.”
― The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
I was with you all the time.
How I wish I’d never fallen into
this earthly trap.
I kept telling you over and over again:
“I’m perfectly happy here.
I don’t want to go anywhere.
To travel from this exaltation down to earth
is just too difficult a journey."
You sent me anyway:
“Go, don’t be scared.
No harm will come to you.
I will always be with you."
You persuaded me by saying:
“If you go, you’ll gain new experiences.
You’ll progress on your path.
You’ll be far more mature
when you come back home."
I replied: “O Essence of Knowledge,
What good is all this learning and information without you?
Who could leave you for knowledge,
unless he has no knowledge of you?"
When I drink wine from your hand,
I haven’t a care in the world.
I become drunk and happy.
I couldn’t care less about gain or loss,
or people’s good or bad features.”
― The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
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