Mirror Me Words

Just a 21-year-old girl sharing quotes from books and poems and essays and songs - and also snippets from books she may or may not actually write in the future. #mirrormewords

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I love cloudy days when I can sit at home and look out the window. Watch the leaves shiver in the wind. And just breathe.

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"No one truly interesting is universally liked."

-Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce

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"I am the ghost, the ghost in the mirror that recreates - painting your soul with every color you hate."

-Ghost in the Mirror by Memphis May Fire

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My Notebook Scribbles

You walk into the room,

they all turn to stare.

I think, Shakespeare was right,

and I shift my eyes to a glare.

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(I can't remember what I was referring to by Shakespeare...but that's all I had written down.)

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"Fiction is woven into all."

-The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

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"[Nature] is not a random force and does not work altogether without method."

-On Sublimity by Longinus

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"If you want me to cry, mourn first yourself; then your misfortunes will hurt me."

-Ars Poetica by Horace

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"—You see, ever since I was a kid I wanted / to feel things make sense..."

-Herbert White by Frank Bidart

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Confession:

I don't like love poems. They're (usually) riddled with clichés.

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"In the end, as we fade into the night, who will tell the story of your life?"

-In The End by Black Veil Brides

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"Knowing what we felt was real, but some delusions never pass..."

-Inherit the Earth by Silent Planet

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"Lead the mind wherever it will."

-Ars Poetica by Horace

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"Unusual excites my wonder."

-On Sublimity by Longinus