“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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“The sun entered my room this morning like an old lover returning from some far place.”
— Virginia Adair, from Living on Fire: A Collection of Poems; “Having It All,”
“But she was not afraid of the moon because she was better adapted to the moon than to the sun and in the darkest dawns, with her eyes wide open, she would see the mysterious moon in the sky. Then, like people who take sunbaths, she would bathe herself completely in the moonlight. And she would feel thoroughly cleansed.”
— Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights
“I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.”
— Jennifer Willoughby, from “The Sun is Still a Part of Me” in Beautiful Zero
She read people like books, quietly, studying their lines and scars like words on a page, studying their walk, the way they hold themselves. Wondering what story brought them here, she reads them and hopes for a happy ending
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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