Blood and Honey ◍ Charles Xavier

red and gold: an epigraph

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❝I picked up my shattered pieces
and put myself back together.
But every time I fell apart again,
it was worse than before.❞

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❝Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won't either,
for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love. You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken,
or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.❞

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