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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

what can I say when I'm being stared at like that (2026)

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.

prettier (2026)

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Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he looked into her eyes, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

us (2025)

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost, on his 80th birthday, speaking to journalist Ray Josephs, 1954

It is the time that you wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

I know you could (2025)

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

I've loved you to death, but in the end, I did not die.

(excerpt from an unfinished poem)

- mary louise kay

We accept the love we think we deserve.

- Stephen Chbosky, The perks of being a wallflower

for whom i had cherished (2025)

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When you told me you love me, I want to believe it.

(excerpt from an unfinished poem)

- mary louise kay

how do you know it's love? (2025)

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