May 2013
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Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.
—Pablo Neruda, excerpt from “Your Laughter”
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“But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want...”
– Aldous Huxley
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A coward's heart in a lion's chest.
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And this is how we danced: our mothers’ white dresses spilling from our feet, late August
turning our hands dark red. And this is how we loved: a fifth of vodka and an afternoon in the attic, your fingers
sweeping through my hair—my hair a wildfire. We covered our ears and your father’s tantrum turned
to heartbeats. When our lips touched the day closed into a coffin. In the museum of the heart
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“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to...”
– Henry Rollins
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you’ll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they...
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“How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Love will tear us apart (again).
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“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that...”
– Markus Zusak
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“My stupidity was in my believing that I knew all there was to know. I genuinely...”
– Laura Marling
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“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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