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

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You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.

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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