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Coziest sweet dogs after a beautiful rainy walk 🌧️🤍
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oldwinesoul · 8 months
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For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house.
Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner
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thoughtkick · 11 months
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For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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sebbyisland · 7 months
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UMI - Butterfly | Madison McFerrin - Know You Better | Unknown | Jeff Zentner - Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee | Wendy Cope - The Orange | The Color Purple Original Soundtrack - What About Love? | Nina LaCour - We Are Okay | Nina LaCour - Everything Leads to You
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surqrised · 7 months
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For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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wedarkacademia · 2 years
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― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light
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nightlyquotes · 2 years
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For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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resqectable · 2 years
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For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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perfeqt · 2 years
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For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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orlissa · 10 months
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A couple of years ago I had the privilege--because it was a privilege--of translating Jeff Zentner’s The Serpent King, and now I finally got around reading one of his other books, Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee, and oh my. It might be because I’ve read some truly bad books lately, but this was something else--raw and painful and honest and funny and absurd and freakishly quotable. And here are some of my favorite lines:
“Did y'all literally split a single brain when you were in the womb and each one of you ended up with half?”
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It's comforting to know that you don't have to be excellent to not be completelly forgotten.
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“I have no idea wha I am doing.” “Dude, none of us do.”
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I've come to believe that everyone gets five or six perfect days in their life. Days with not a single wrong note or thorn, days that ripen like peach in your memory as years pass. Every time you go to bite it, it's juicy and sweet.
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“Isn't it amazing that we live in a time when we have access to crappy art?” “Like?” “Like think how you've never seen a horrendous Renaissance painting. Not every artist in the Renaissance was Michelangelo, right?” “Ah. True.” “There must have been some Renaissance painters that were disasters. Where are their paintings?” I shift position on the couch. “They probably got burned for firewood or something.” “I wish there was a museum of crapy Renaissance art. I would totally go.”
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I have a gray uncentered feeling of unease.
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“Eggs in one basket. That's such a dumb phrase. It only works in a world where all the chickens have gone extinct and you can't just, you know, go get some more eggs and everything's fine.”
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“No,” Delia says to the guy, who has a face even a mother would admit, in all candor, was not her best work, and whose grey goatee looks like a bedraggled mouse humping his chin.
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It is weird to me to be super resistant to things that are designed specifically to be liked. There are so many other ways to use your energy. Just enjoy stuff that's fun.
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I never feel pressure to be someone I'm not when I'm around him. I never feel like I need to hide any part of who I am. Being around him feels like waking up on a Saturday morning when the whole day ahead of you is free and you've slept the perfect amount, and your bed is the most ideal temperature, it's like you're part of an experiment in human comfort. It's so easy. So effortless.
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I want to keep living in this moment forever. […] Take the hourglass and lay it on its side.
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“I'm just saying, it's sweet how humans are animals tto, but we wer clothes and drive cars. We're like dogs in sweaters and chimps in tuxedos.”
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“I do not subscribe to the antiquated notion of 'friendship,'” he replies in a grandiose tone. I've never heard such smugness over being friendless.
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There aren't enough good places to scream in this world.
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Learning what you don't want can be as important as learning what you do want.
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barrowsteeth · 1 year
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the quote you used for your last nick gifset was so swoony romantic and gorgeous. i don't know anything about the author you linked but i just put the book on hold at my library.
anon, you have no idea how happy this makes me! jeff zentner is one of my absolute favorite YA authors. he's lived an interesting life and is a lover of poetry, like myself, which is heavily reflected in his writing. If you can't get In the Wild Light at your library right away, I also highly recommend The Serpent King.
And if you enjoy the above, his next book (not YA) is scheduled for publication next year.
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imkeepinit · 2 years
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andley · 2 years
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Dill pomyślał, że może nie tak łatwo go przejrzeć. Bo inaczej Lydia zapytałaby go, dlaczego wygląda tak, jakby ktoś wyrywał mu serce, kawałek po kawałku, komórka po komórce, cząstka po cząsteczce. A on wcale od tego nie umierał, tylko robił się całkiem pusty.
— Król węży, Jeff Zenter
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thoughtkick · 11 months
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I think if what you’d do for your last day on Earth doesn’t look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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d1anna · 2 years
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titular poem from novel in the wild light (2021) by jeff zentner
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surqrised · 7 months
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I think if what you’d do for your last day on Earth doesn’t look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life.
Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
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