“You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.”
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“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet you love me—wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, excerpt of XXXV, ‘If I Leave All for Thee’, in Sonnets from the Portuguese (ed. William Peterson & Julia Markus)
“Yes, as a tool I may prove good for something. But as a human being I am a wreck.”
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“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
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“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand. without you even speaking a word.”
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“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
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