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[skyflights]

inspiration post.
(your breath stopped at the door, and at that moment i could put words in your mouth.)

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[skyflights]

"Well, I don't know if it's explicity stated in the law, but you can't ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder."

-- The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)

[skyflights]

"Words, words. They're all we have to go on."

-- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)

[skyflights]

Reiko smiled too, cigarette in mouth. "You are a good person, though. I can tell that much from looking at you. I can tell these things after seven years of watching people come and go here: there are people who can open their hearts and people who can't. You're one of the ones who can. Or, more precisely, you can if you want to."
"What happens when people open their hearts?"
Reiko clasped her hands together on the table, cigarette dangling from her lips. She was enjoying this. "They get better," she said.

-- Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)

[skyflights]

You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

-- The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)

[skyflights]

"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."

-- Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch Albom)