"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
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"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
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"I am a collection of dismantled almosts."
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"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
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"As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love."
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"I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found."
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"Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth."
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"Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief."
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"Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery."
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"O starry night, This is how I want to die"
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"O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning."
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"I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is."
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"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
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"I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse."
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"All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out."
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"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
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"The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels."
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"I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything."
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"Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice."
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"Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave."
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