a spy in the house of love

Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

—e.e. cummings

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Don’t squander one blessing by coveting another one.

—J.D. Greear

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Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

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The Darkest Minds

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People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”
“Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”
- Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”

“Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

- Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

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Now I know I’ve got a heart, because it’s breaking.

—The Wizard of Oz

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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

—C.S. Lewis (via petrichour)

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