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acaseofyou) wrote2022-01-03 12:50 pm
inspo & tracking
Langston Hughes
"But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future." "Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it." "They say age brings wisdom, but it isn't true. All you ever get is a better sense of your own limitations." "...I had felt the same way, intending to enjoy every free moment of life. Yet I had lapsed back into a daily routine, wishing my time away." "Words I'd always taken for granted had turned into landmines, traps for me to stumble over and fall into." "As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness--the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string." "What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force." "I'll tell you the truth, and it's up to you to live with it." "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." "Why must all these wonderful plans be merely a figment of my imagination and reality offer me only pain and frustration everywhere I look?" "To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart." "Being held was wonderful. Holding someone was wonderful. Being known and wanted for who you really were was wonderful." "Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened." "...her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic." "If time were a bolt of cloth I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily." "Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us." "'What is wrong? What is right? What must one love, what must one hate? What is life for, and what am I? What is life? What is death? What force controls it all?' he asked himself. And there was no answer to one of these questions, except one illogical reply that was in no way an answer to any of them. That reply was: 'One dies and it's all over. One dies and finds it all out or ceases asking.'" "The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn't held it tighter when you had it every day." "Funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them." |
((disclaimer: birdie is not a witch but this is definitely the vibe))
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