#thequotehaven

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C.S Lewis

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She's used to silences: she can distinguish between full silences and empty ones, between those that come before and those that come after. Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

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I don’t seem to want anything others want.  I don’t even know if I want something. To be perfectly quiet, still alive with no one pressing me.

Alice Notley, I Went Down There

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I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

Georges Bataille

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In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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I could live almost completely in imagination.

Louise Glück, The Destination

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On the surface, I was poised, cool, indifferent. (…) The discrepancy between what I would show the world and the chaos I felt grew steadily more intense.

Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry