Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it’s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.

Richard Siken's Popular Quotes

Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happ…

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Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

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You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

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Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

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Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal…

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I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

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When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.

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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

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You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

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