Delayed Departures

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[booksqouted]

“Just a touch more pressure with her trigger finger and all this sadness would disappear. Just a touch more. No, if I pull my finger just five millimetres toward me, I will shift over to a silent world where there are no more worries. The pain will only last an instant. And then there will be a merciful nothingness.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is remind ourselves over and over and over other people feel this too.”

— Andrea Gibson

[thequotejournals]

“I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

[lifeinpoetry]

i killed a plant once because i gave it too much water. lord, i worry that love is violence.

— José Olivarez, from “Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains,” Citizen Illegal

[lifeinpoetry]

Don’t think: Your body will ever be yours. Though last night I touched myself, green garlic on my tongue, spiced Goya in my veins.

— Shauna Barbosa, from “After Finding a Hair in My Food at Roxbury’s First Gentrified Café,” Cape Verdean Blues

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[quotemadness]

“I have so much of you in my heart.”

— John Keats

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[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“I’m choosing happiness over suffering. I know I am. I’m making a space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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In life, as in novels, we are aware of the pain of others, we feel their suffering, only when we learn to love them.

Elena Ferrante, in an interview about the writing process behind the Neapolitan novels

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[howitzerliterarysociety-deactiv]

The only prayer the gods ever hear: I BELIEVE IN MYSELF I BELIEVE IN MYSELF I BELIEVE IN MYSELF

[quotemadness]

“Don’t listen to yourself; listen to the advice that you give others.”

— Michael Lottner