It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and enjoy the journey. It doesn't really matter who I've become by the finish line, the important things are the changes from this morning to when I fall asleep again, and how they happened, and who they happened with. An hour watching the stars, a coffee in the morning with someone beautiful, intelligent conversations at 5am while sharing the last cigarette. Taking trains to nowhere, walking hand in hand through foreign cities with someone you love. Oceans and poetry. It was all very ordinary until my identity appeared, until my body and mind became one being. The day I saw the flowers and learned how to turn my daily struggles into the most extraordinary moments. Moments worth writing about. For so long I let my life slip through my fingers, like water. I'm holding on to it now, and I'm not letting go.
Charlotte Eriksson
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I made my decision. “I...I would like... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI My dear Rosie, Unbeknownst to you I took this chance before, many, many years ago. You ne... CECELIA AHERN The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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In the second half if I should take the players individually, I would ... SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON It's a great partnership. Michael Owen will score goals for them and it's great that he can play tog... SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I don't remember anyone making such an impact on a tournament since Pele in the 1958 World Cup in Sw... SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle. CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown stra... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN When women go wrong, men go right after them. CHARLOTTE WHITTON If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather th... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can kid the world, but not your sister. CHARLOTTE GRAY Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. CHARLOTTE BRONTE As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul... CHARLOTTE BRONTE America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. CHARLOTTE BUNCH If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha... CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not... CHARLOTTE WHITTON But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus... CHARLOTTE BRONTE In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos... CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa... CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, CHARLOTTE BARNARD Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse... CHARLOTTE BRONTE One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con... CHARLOTTE BRONTE There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Look twice before you leap. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. 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