"To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Eye Quotes #Names Quotes #Space Quotes

“You love simply because you cannot help it.”
“If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.”
“Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"”
“He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?”
“This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me”
“Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.”
“Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it.”

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