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“all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.”

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Warsan Shire is a British-Somali writer renowned for her poetry and prose. Her works often explore themes of identity, race, gender, and immigration, earning her praise from readers and critics alike. more

“That first winter, when it was time for her friends to leave, the girl ventured out into the show to say goodbye, and the stunning raven-haired Squaller handed her another gift. "A blue kefta," said the math teacher, shaking her head. "What would she do with that?" "Maybe she knew a Grisha who died," replied the cook, taking note of the tears that filled the girl's eyes. They did not see the note that read, You will always be one of us.”

Sun Ending Grisha Zoya Alina Summoner

Book:Ruin and Rising

Source: Ruin and Rising

“While we hear Carl Jung's jazzy humming and Nietzsche's dance steps intermittently during our musings, we can willingly tear down the spread of depression from all the gray zones around and allow the sun to shine and warm up the hearts' expectations. ("A handful of dust")”

Sun Depression Expectations Nietzsche Musings Humming Carl Jung Dance Steps Handful Of Dust Gray Zone

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.”

Sun Moon Autumn Golden Age

Book:Personal geography: almost an autobiography

Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography

“The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.”

Love Night Dies Sun Moon Breathe Every Loves Reflects In Return

Book:Distilled Thoughts

Source: Distilled Thoughts

“Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun”

Race Sun Place Runaway Ticket

Author:Tracy Chapman

“As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.”

Sun Doing Good Humbleness

Book:Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

Source: Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

“The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, while the houses were white shells in a rounded grotto, pricked here and there by a great orange sun.”

Sun Sea Ocean Coast Coastline

Book:Rebecca

Source: Rebecca

“... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.”

Young Girl Sun Hair Cold Summer Flowers Sister Blonde Dandelions Bare Feet Sundress Coldest Daughter Memories

Author:Holly Black

“How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.”

Sun Peaches

Book:All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

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