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After a few seconds,

After a few seconds, he turns his face to meet mine, and we kiss. It’s not much like the first time, it’s not at all desperate and hungry, but it’s calm. Serene, sort of. It feels like being where you are supposed to be.

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Her heart is nourised by

Her heart is nourised by spring-water and innocence.

- Geneviève Bon

Sometimes when you are in a dark place

Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried, but you have actually been planted.

- Christine Caine

Advice? I don’t have advice.

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. Write like you are clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you have got just one last thing to say, like you are a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we are not alone.

- Alan W. Watts

When every other thing

When every other thing failed to free from his anxiety, going to mountains, wiped his soul clean.

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There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand

There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror? The touch of another person’s hands.

Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else’s hand can ease pain and make things better. That’s power. That’s power so fundamental that most people never even realize it exists.

- Jim Butcher