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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
— Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973)

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“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

Blue-Eyed Devil, Lisa Kleypas

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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
— Gregory David Roberts
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I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It will be easy as breathing with me.
— Jacob Black to Bella Swan, wounded, after the war with the newborns (via thecriticposter)
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Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.
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she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun
— saul williams  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Just marry your conscience. Marry the one who makes you want to be a better person.
— Jay Leno (via modernhepburn)

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aseaofquotes: Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed, we have to repeal Citizens United.
— Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) comparing campaign finance decision to high court’s 1857 ruling backing slavery.  (via officialssay)
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If calculations of the newly discovered Higgs boson particle are correct, one day, tens of billions of years from now, the universe will disappear at the speed of light, replaced by a strange, alternative dimension, one theoretical physicist calls “boring.
— So we have that to look forward to. (via motherjones)

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The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
— David Levithan, Every Day  (via thatkindofwoman)

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You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.
— Junot Díaz (via lazyscranton)

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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
— James Baldwin
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If you try, at the very least you will always learn, but if you don’t try, you will always rob society of the inestimable value of what could have been.
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