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“it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.”

Quote by Michelle Tea

Book:The Beautiful: Collected Poems

Work

The Beautiful: Collected Poems

This compilation gathers a selection of poems that delve into the concept of beauty from various perspectives, showcasing the depth and diversity of the poet's work. more

Author

Michelle Tea is an American author born in 1971. Her works cover a variety of themes, including gender, identity, and community. Tea is known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into the lives of marginalized groups. more

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“Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.”

Source: The Nature of Jade

“But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.”

Knows Littles Sometimes Feelings Knowing Majors Fuzzy

Book:Nature of Jade

Source: Nature of Jade

“Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.”

Kind Body Dancing My Favorite Your Body Honestly Joyous Great Music Carefree

Author:Alison Brie

“I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”

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Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”

Persons Stills Book Lasts Song Memories Forever Corners Good Book Good Memories This Lullaby Darkest Times

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.”

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Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“The free man never thinks of escape.”

Thinking Men Free Man

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.”

Firsts Long Has Beens Light Energy Stars Parent Millions Minutes Events Waste Accounts Patterns Nuclear Tiny Opening Bombs Guts Atoms Locked Decay Bangs Uranium Supernova Nuclear Waste Potassium

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson