textualosities;

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❝ Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence. ❞ - TONI MORRISON ❝ What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling? ❞ - LORI LANSENS ❝ To burn with desire and keep quite about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. ❞ - FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ❝ Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. ❞ - SONYA HARNETT ❝ That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute... ❞ - EDGAR ALLAN POE ❝ I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held… Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do. ❞ - ERIN MORGENSTERN ❝ I was a shell. Empty. Put me to your ear and you would hear the distant rush of a ghost ocean. Just nothing. The slightest pressure of current or tide could push and roll me. I would wash up. Here on this bank, dry out and bleach and the wind would scour and roughen me, strip away the thinnest layers until I was brittle and the thickness of paper. Until I crumbled into sand. That's how I felt. I'd say it was a relief to have at last nothing, nothing, but I was too hollow to register relief, to empty to carry it. ❞ - PETER HELLER ❝ That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much. ❞ - JODI PICOULT ❝ Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered. ❞ - MARGARET ATWOOD ❝ But the pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the   surface. ❞ - KATIE KACVINSKY ❝ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ❞ - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ❝ There are things you lose you do not get back. You cannot have them, ever again, except in the smudging carbon copy of memory. There are things that seem irreconcilable that you must find a way to reconcile with. The simple passage of day dulls the sharpness of the pain, but i tnever wears it out: what gets washed away in time gets washed away, and then you're left with a hard cold nub of something, an unlovable souvenir. ❞ - PETER CAMERON ❝ For reasons that have eluded people forever, many of us seem bent on our own destruction. ❞ - KIM TINGLEY