“Sometimes It Takes Sadness To Know Happiness, Noise To Appreciate Silence, And Absence To Value Presence.”

“I love your name. (…) I pray it into the night till its letters are light.”

— Carol Ann Duffy, from Name in “Rapture”

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“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m grateful for that.”

— Ally Condie; Matched

““Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.” - Leila Sales”

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“Why was ‘plain’ a euphemism for ‘ugly,’ when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her – something having to do with who she really was.”

— Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; “Rifqa”

[Text ID: “I cried—not for the house / but for the memories I could have had inside it.”]

“Love isn’t like it is in the books.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald; Emotional Bankruptcy