thoughts

— quotes every hour

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Even though you want to try to, never grow up. Just always be waiting for me.

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You, who never could just walk away from a too-good thing.

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if you go anywhere, I want to go with you.

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she remembered how much taller than her he’d grown, how when they embraced, her head fit neatly under his chin.

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It's just that I fell in love with a war
Nobody told me it ended

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That was the first time that I really saw my mother as a person. A person who was so much more than just my mother. It was strange to think of her that way.

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I am absolutely positive that I need you more than I've ever needed another living soul

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What I mean is don't be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.

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We live this way because of them.
We don’t comprehend the punch lines. They’re tired
because the nights are long. We’ve heard them before,
telling stories we don’t bother to record.

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You loved him. He knows that. It should be enough.
It’s not.

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When we were seventeen. When we were young, and I was mad with wanting you. I did not know how to speak that desire. I was terrified that you might find out.

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You’ve lost too much to give more of yourself away.

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In some other world?
In some other world. He said he made a place for us.

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I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.

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You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars, and why I spent my whole life trying to put it into words.

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Think of yourself: is this all of myself?

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when we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.

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All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.

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I always thought the choice was mine, and I was right but I just chose wrong

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I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters.