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pablo neruda, Love Sonnet XI
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five


The stuffed rabbit asked, “What is real?” And the rabbit asked, “Does it hurt?” And the horse said, “Sometimes.” ”Does it happen all at once?” ”It takes a long time. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, your eyes dropped out, and you get loose in the joints. But these things don’t matter because you are real. Y
... See moreWhen my husband was dying, I said: ‘Moe, how am I supposed to live without you?’ He told me: ‘Take the love you have for me and spread it around.
- Humans of New York


“Untitled” by Izumi Shikibu (transl. Jane Hirshfield)
