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It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.

It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  9. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  11. There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  15. I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. My father insisted I eat red meat. ‘You’ll lose your brain without food,’ he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  24. I know I’ll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I’ll hold, I’ll hold. I know. – Sara Quin
  25. Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. – SA Tawks
  26. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. – Criss Jami
  27. To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. – Rainbow Rowell
  28. Love is a divine and universal attraction, which hold the universe together and fills it with beauty, life, and happiness forever. – Debasish Mridha
  29. Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever. – Sri Chinmoy
  30. Don’t try to live forever – You can’t! But you can do things that will live forever. – RVM
  31. The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever live in people’s hearts. – Karon Waddell
  32. The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will live forever in people’s hearts. – Karon Waddell
  33. The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people’s hearts. – Karon Waddell
  34. To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
  35. The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try. – Rob Liano
  36. Until you do your best, don’t try to take a rest. Until you take a leap, don’t try to sleep. Until you top, don’t try to stop. – Israelmore Ayivor
  37. It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on. – Kate McGahan
  38. I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed. – Viv Albertine
  39. Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable…for us, forever just won’t do. – Steve Maraboli
  40. …they hold all their flaws between their bodies and cradle them with each kiss. – Hannah Moskowitz

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