“And then, one fairy night, May became June.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Which are more full of fate:
The stars, or those sad eyes?”— Lionel Johnson, from The Poetical Works of Lionel Johnson; “To Morfyd,”
“I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nothing terrifies me more than the thought of speaking my pain aloud for another living soul to hear.
In truth, I am afraid that I will fall apart like a flower does; that once I start opening up I’ll be unable to stop and before I realize it, I’ll be in pieces on the floor…
“Love is choosing, the snake said.
The kingdom of God is within you
because you ate it.”— Margaret Atwood, from Quattrocento in “Selected Poems II: 1976-1986″
I almost wish I had never met you – so I wouldn’t feel so empty.
Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman c. January 1951
“Men fear witches because they take their power from the earth without poisoning the soil.”
“Now here is my secret, very simply: you can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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When I shed my skin
for you, I left intact
my animal heartthe desire to crack bones between delicate teeth.
Jeannine Hall Gailey, “The Animal Heart: She Warns Him,” from She Returns to the Floating World (
My God, you’re so far away, suffering for no good reason, and hurting your heart.
Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana written c. April 1949
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