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"I was born anew, owner of my own darkness."
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"[Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. 'Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!'Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white - and - ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."

"YOU are a signature to be dealt with and inspire, only when you move in to your authenticity."

"But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too."

"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."

"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."

"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."
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"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land."

"Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that formsthe fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweedsfilled your body with joy, and your luminous eyesand your mouth that has the smile of the water.A black yearning sun is braided into the strandsof your black mane, when you stretch your arms.You play with the sun as with a little brookand it leaves two dark pools in your eyes."

"I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window."

"Solo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano."

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."

"I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!"
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