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-Oscar wilde. //The Importance of Being Earnest//
-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore
12 January. I am traumatized by life.
-Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
-"Gardening with the Son I Will Never Have", Ocean Vuong, Burnings
You don't like the bitterness of coffee until you are with the person with whom you have spent eternities together in the past, so the realization hits that it's the only pathway to your memories of childhood.
So you sip the bitterness calmly in hope of turning back time and meeting the daffodils you once grew together in your garden of innocence.....
~s
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People
-Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006
-Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes (Platinum Fiction Series)
They were wrong, love is never enough to keep someone with you.
-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poems
Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
-Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
-J.R.R. Tolkien, the return of the king
-Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov dated July 1923, featured in Letters to Vera
Here is my hand, he said Here is my hand that will not harm you.
— Louise Glück Epithalamium from "Descending Figure.”
"If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness."
~ Nizar Qabbani
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke
-Yanyi, from Dream of the Divided Field: Poems; “The Friend”
-Ocean Vuong, from “Eurydice”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn awakened."
-Raquel Franco
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947