Mere Words

poems, proses, book quotes and all thoughts in between

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Bellerophontic Letters

Cold and shivering

I went to you

Bearing words that I

never expected

to cause me pain

"I love you", I said

Not knowing that demise

is waiting ahead

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"Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever..."

— Carlos Ruiz Zafòn, The Shadow of the Wind

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Kindness was compensation. Kindness was a reminder that my life had changed, was always changing, that people thought I should just accept all this and become strong or brave, more enlightened, more peaceful.

— Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

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"Men were liars by nature, and would give anything to get what they wanted of you, and then they would think better of it and be off on the next boat..."

– Mary Whitney, of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

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"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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"It is true that I know many things. Yet in the battle between knowledge and passion, knowledge never wins."

— Merlin, The Enchantment of Merlin ( from Liz Green & J. Sharman-Burke's The Mythic Journey: ...)

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"Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it."

- Albus Dumbledore, on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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"Sacrifice,..., you made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost."

- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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"Here on earth, falling is less dramatic. You drift. You wander off."

— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith

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Trenches

let's skip the idle talks

and dive deep

to the dark recesses

of our minds

keep the coffee

brewing on the maker

as we talk deep

about life

don't give me

the "I'm ok"

I confess,

I'm tired

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"The goal of prayer is not to change God's mind about what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God."

— Clara Williams, in Chris Fabry's novelization of War Room

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"I knew," he said, "that what I wrote must give you pain, but it was necessary..."

- Fitzwilliam Darcy, on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

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"Many of us decided long ago who we were. And it's hard for others to tell us otherwise."

- Steven Furtick, (UN)QUALIFIED: How GOD Uses Broken People to Do Big Things

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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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I’m only as tall, as my heart will let me be

and only as small as the world will make me seem <3