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“She was so fragile. A jewel, a flower. Delicate. No matter what she did.”
― Henry Miller

“I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

“Dearly I yearn for my mother’s bread,
My mother’s coffee,
Mother’s brushing touch.
Childhood is raised in me,
Day upon day in me.
And I so cherish life
Because if I died
My mother’s tears would shame me.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“Presents

I snipped and stitched my soul
to a little black dress,

hung my heart on a necklace,
tears for its pearls,

my mouth went for a bracelet,
gracing your arm,

all my lover's words
for its dangling charms,

and my mind was a new hat,
sexy and chic,

for a hair of your head on my sleeve,
like a scrawled receipt.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture