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Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.

Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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Someone who gets me, *Laugh* but not…it’s still a thin line. I don’t hate, do ‘dislike greatly’. Hate ended with my child self — so about one year, two months, two weeks and eleven hours ago…to be oddly specific. I took on the most intense challenge of my life…

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.

Stephen King
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.

Aldous Huxley, Island
i grieve who i could've been,
had i not lost years of my life,
to the mayhem in my mind.

a broken childhood is never buried;
it lives on in your mind, your heart, your soul.

the ruins will chase you around,
until you pay attention,
until you cry and grieve and rewire.

healing is a full time job,
with no wage.

fragile feelings, iris rose
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Wow. So many of us can relate to this, I'm sure. *Heart*
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Morales: Parce mihi domino

Jan Garbarek

The Hilliard Ensemble


And in the end, I believe that we don't need to do anything to be loved. We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter. But I realized two things. Those who love us see us with their hearts and attribute qualities to us beyond those we really have. And those who don't want to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts. Yes, I really believe that it is important to leave our imperfections alone.They are precious to understand those who see us with the heart.

Frida Kahlo
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This is so important! Thank you for sharing. *Heart*
All my life, I made this mistake: the dust was on my face, but I kept cleaning the mirror.

Mirza Ghalib
For the Gentle Ones

if you are the kind of person
who cries at the end of books
who stops to help a wounded bird
who feels too much in a world
that feels too little
please don't change
the world has enough hard hearts
it needs more of yours

Unknown
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

Charles de Lint
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Bruce Coville, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

John Steinbeck
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A spoiler, isn’t it.




Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent; but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.

Finn Butler
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Thanks, I needed this.
This is beautiful! I love it! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. *Heart*
I read somewhere that when we don't feel wanted, we make ourselves feel needed. And I realize now that's what I've been doing my entire life.

Unknown
I've opened a can of worms.

They just sit here, the worms.
Hardly the chaos that's been advertised.

Unknown
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It’s Big Worm to help worm futures in stock market, plus an increased production of cheap lures.

Baited. Took it and ran.

Hooked.
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
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