The words that bind me

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“Some people don’t know what they have until it’s gone.”

“But what about the ones who do know? The ones who never took a damn thing for granted? Who tried their hardest to hold on, yet could only look helplessly while they lost the thing they loved the most.”

“Isn’t it so much worse for them?”

-The Universe of us, Lang Leav

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I want to plant a seed in your mind, some tiny particle of thought that bears a remnant of me. So little by little, day by day, you find yourself thinking of me, until one morning, you will wake up and realize you can't think of anything else.

The Universe of us, Lang Leav

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I have walked through the ruins of an empire as it fell through the passageway of time. I have witnessed star after star exploding like fireworks, as I fixed my gaze light-years into the sky. And I was only a pinprick of dust on the day they split the atom. I had yet to learn the most destructive thing in the world is the quiet yearning between two people who long to find their way back to each other.

The Universe of Us, Lang Leav

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History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which is bad is that in a given situation we can only make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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He was not at all sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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You've touched me without even touching me

Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

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It is a pleasant sensation to come back to something familiar.

Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster

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It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster

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It's a fine thing to be educated-but nothing compared to the dizzying experience of owning six new dresses.

Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster

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The trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you've never learned.

Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster

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When I take you as my queen, Persephone, your crown shall be every jewel in the earth. every ounce of its wealth will be your adornment.

Receiver of Many, Rachel Alexander

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More than anything I want to save you from myself

Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

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How does something shine when it destroys the light?

Receiver of Many, Rachel Alexander

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There is a girl who smiles all the time, to show the world that she is fine A boy who surrounds himself with friends, wishes that his life would end. For those that say they never knew- the saddest leave the least of clues

The Universe of Us, Lang Leav