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I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.

I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. 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
  3. 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
  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. 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
  12. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – 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. The Greatest loss in life is the loss of a mother: The second greatest, the loss of Self. – Med Saidi
  25. When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
  26. Perspective, patience, & trust. One derived from the past, one applied now, and one for the future. Powerful allies for your journey in life. – Gary Rudz
  27. The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her – Emily Bront
  28. Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man’s distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived. – Aldous Huxley
  29. The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home. – Robin Wall Kimmerer
  30. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. – Brennan Manning
  31. Anger may not have been derived from the Hindi word ‘angaar’ meaning Fire…however coincidentally both are equally destructive. – ketan r shah
  32. Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life – Sunday Adelaja
  33. Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes. – Rick Perlstein
  34. In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  35. I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
  36. To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
  37. A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. – Kristin Hannah
  38. …the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas – angry, I knew his riddle – beauty is what is pleasing to the eye – he wasn’t… – John Geddes
  39. Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor’s kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever. – Robin Bielman
  40. Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily. – Ally Condie

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