"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." ••Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 "When the war is over, we will get married. Flowers like you will grow on earth, and in your womb you will carry the most beautiful girl in the universe."

— The letter found in the pocket of a soldier who fell at war in 1939.

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“Though it was the end of February, the day was a lazy sort of cold. The sun slipped through the cloud in bursts, reminding the landscape that it was still there, prodding snow piles to relax into puddles and stirring sleeping seeds under the ground.”

― Erika Robuck, Call Me Zelda

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable....

It opens your chest, and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”  ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly One

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 “The world seemed spellbound in icy purity; its earthly blemishes veiled; it lay fixed in a deathlike, enchanted trance.”

― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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“The wind crooned softly as it dusted the snow against the windows, wrapping them in a thick and fluffy cotton blanket.”

― Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song

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“Innocent droplets of rain
Make almost all events
Quite natural."

(from "A Rainy Day")
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry