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“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”
― Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage

“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Judah Halevi

“When we show a friend a city one has already visited, we feel the same pride as when we point out a woman whose lover we have been.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo