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  • #332
    Ocean Vuong
    “I miss you more than I remember you.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #333
    Ocean Vuong
    “Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #334
    Ocean Vuong
    “Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #335
    Ocean Vuong
    “What were you before you met me?"
    "I think I was drowning"
    "And what are you now?"
    "Water”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: life, love, poetry
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  • #336
    Ocean Vuong
    “I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: freedom, writing
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  • #337
    Ocean Vuong
    “I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: beauty, earth
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  • #338
    Ocean Vuong
    “Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #339
    Ocean Vuong
    “A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: fiction, poetry, wings
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  • #340
    Ocean Vuong
    “The truth is we can survive our lives, but not our skin. But you know this already.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #341
    Ocean Vuong
    “They say nothing lasts forever and I’m writing you in the voice of an endangered species.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #342
    Ocean Vuong
    “He loves me, he loves me not, we are taught to say, as we tear the flower from its flowerness. To arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration. Eviscerate me, we mean to say, and I'll tell you the truth.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #343
    Ocean Vuong
    “When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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  • #344
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata
    tags: inspiration, light, sherlock-holmes
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  • #345
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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  • #346
    George R.R. Martin
    “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: childhood, summer, winter
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  • #347
    Kenny Chesney
    “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”
    ― Kenny Chesney
    tags: kiss, smile, summer, wine
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  • #348
    E. Lockhart
    “The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: island, summer, youth
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  • #349
    Dodie Smith
    “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: autumn, mist, summer
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  • #350
    Charles Bowden
    “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
    ― Charles Bowden
    tags: death, juarez, mexico, seasons, summer
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  • #351
    E.B. White
    “The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: sadness, seasons, summer
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  • #352
    Sanober Khan
    “some winters
    will never melt

    some summers
    will never freeze

    and some things will only
    ... live in poems.”
    ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
    tags: freeze, life-quotes, live, melt, memories, poems, poetic, poetry, poetry-quotes, summer, winter, wisdom, wistful
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  • #353
    Ray Bradbury
    “Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: summer, sunshine, wine, winter
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  • #354
    Toni Morrison
    “I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
    tags: summer
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  • #355
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: april, growth, promise, seasons, spring, summer
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  • #356
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: rain
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  • #357
    John Green
    “Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: emo, poetry, rain
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  • #358
    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: books, comfort, rain, reading, tea
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  • #359
    Walt Disney Company
    “After the rain, the sun will reappear.
    There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”
    ― Walt Disney Company
    tags: joy, pain, rain, sun
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  • #360
    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: words
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  • #361
    Arundhati Roy
    “She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: beautiful, flowers, midnight
    797 likes



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