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There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them
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“Knowing someone isn't coming back
doesn't mean you ever stop waiting”
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doesn't mean you ever stop waiting”
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“Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.”
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“But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles”
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“You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains tight around my chest,
and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
it’s my chains going up in flames.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
it’s my chains going up in flames.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
“The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind.
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.
---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss”
― Hothouse
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.
---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss”
― Hothouse
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