Where Would We be Without Words

A place to store my favorite quotations.

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I was taught of my own ugly, made to forget myself, and I do not love less.

Arati Warrier

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I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Sarah Ruhl

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Months after your passing, I forgot what to call the streets. I couldn’t know them as anything other than the ground that had lost hope of ever knowing the soles of your feet.

Sam Rush

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Make the music you want to listen to. Make the art you want to see. Won’t exist if you don’t.

Leslie Odom Jr.

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I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.

Amy Poehler

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Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

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I imagined it as an accident, that when I left they whispered to each other “I love you” so many times over that they forgot what it meant.

Phil Kaye

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

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Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Harlan Coben

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I want to spill every color from this form. I want to leave a canvas sinking with the weight of my pedigree. I want to be able to look at a sunrise and not see my entire family falling to pieces.

Emi Mahmoud

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Black privilege is always having to be the strong one, is having a crowbar for a spine, is fighting even when you have no more blood to give.

Crystal Valentine

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

Jonathan Carroll