You may think I’m small, but I have a universe in my head.
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I want you to know that your femaleness
is not weakness. I want you to wearyour heart like a crown.
—
E. Kristin Anderson, from “Poem for My Niece on Her Brother’s First Birthday,” published in FIVE:2:ONE
“I would make my home, with joy and gladness, in a dark forest.”
— Alexander Pushkin, tr. by Alan Shaw, from “God Grant, My Reason Ne’er Betray Me,”

D.H. Lawrence, from New & Collected Poems; “Embankment at Night, Before the War,” (x)
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different
““If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.””
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Reason forbids, but passion urges strongly—
“Those big tragic eyes of her–”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, from “No Exit & Three Other Plays,” published c. 1949 (via violentwavesofemotion)
““While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.” — Jack Kerouac”
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“You deserve good things and I want to be one of them.”
— Ellen Hopkins (via brightend)