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[coralmorphologic]

Octo Pose

[stephunni]

Was forever long to you? Did you say that to her too?

[disclain]

[elenamorelli]

[vaggvisa-deactivated20201010]

Александра • Vaggvisa • Григорьева

[continentalvoyager-deactivated2]

[mpdrolet]

[ghostlywriterr]

[s-t-y-l-e-t-s]

[wordsnquotes]

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

— Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook

[wordsnquotes]

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”

— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

[wordsnquotes]

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

— Pablo Picasso

[wordsnquotes]

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? It is even possible to dislike our old selves, those disposable ancestors of ours. For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot.”

— John Updike, Self-Consciousness

[wordsnquotes]

“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”

— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent

[wordsnquotes]

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

[wordsnquotes]

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

[wordsnquotes]

“You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.”

— Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts