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 When you tell your story, it changes the ending. - Rhonda Lauritzen

돌아올 곳이 있다는 건,  우릴 얼마나 안심하게 만드는지   - Welcome to Samdal-ri 내가 좋아하는 거  내가 하고 싶은 거  지금 당장 하면서 살래  - Hospital Playlist

"Fate is nothing more than a person's outlook on life."   "No matter where I lived, my life would be the same. I'd be living the same mundane life and no one would be interested in me. I felt like if I lived like this for too long, I'd shrivel up and die. That's why I invented you. You, who I'll meet someday. To you at least I wouldn't be that ordinary, right?"   "I'm not unhappy but I'm not happy either."    "Try having a kid. You'll feel full without eating. Every day will be amazing. You'll be invincible. No one can beat you. No one can beat parents."    "I think I feel a compulsion to live a productive day, but there's not much to show for it. I'm just constantly looking at my watch and being chased by time. As soon as I realised I've been living like that my whole life, weirdly, my heart suddenly started to pound."    "Do not give advice. Do not try to comfort. Those are the ...

"But books were different. They had lots of blanks. Blanks between words and even between lines. I could squeeze myself in there and sit, or walk, or scribble down my thoughts. It didn't matter if I had no idea what the words meant." "But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then do they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle." "What does love mean?" "To discover beauty." "I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to judge you, I just wanted to know your purpose. Your purpose for running." Dora let out a sigh. "To me, that's like being asked, Why do you live? Do you live for any purpose? Let's be honest, we just live because we're alive." "Maybe understanding a language is like understanding the expressions and emotions of other people." "Old books seem all right, though. They have a richer scent that's more a...

"Life was very different when you walked through it."   "Now that he accepted the slowness of himself, he took pleasure in the distance he covered."   "Maybe you saw even more than the land when you got out of the car and used your feet."    "Walking the road already travelled was even harder. It was like not moving at all. It was worse; like eating into a part of himself."   "It was hard to understand a little and then walk away."    "Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways."    He needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way." -- Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Norman Rockwell, Marriage License, 1955, oil on canvas, 45.5 x 42.5 inches http://www.nrm.org/images/mobile-app/ml/ml_d-Steph.html  

THE MORE LOVING ONE by W.H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. -- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself. ˜ Another short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion. ˜ [...] formed such a contrast with his early opinion on the subject [...] as time is for ever producing between the plans and decisions of mortals, for their own instruction, and their neighbours' entertainment. -- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The sun was sharp; I was sweating in my woman-travelling-alone modest outfit. ˜ Real life has such a hard time learning poetry. -- Githa Hariharan, Almost Home

Oh. if life were made of moments, Even now and then a bad one! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one. [...] Let the moment go... Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and", When you're back to "or", Makes the "or" mean more Than it did before. Now I understand. ~ "Moments in the Woods", Into the Woods

Servant: [...] I pray, sir, can you read? Romeo: Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. -- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare