She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 

 

 

 

 

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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
― Benjamin Franklin 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
― Percy Bysshe Shelley 

 

 

 

 

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This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.
― Rumi

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
― Marc Chernoff

 

 

 

 

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As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

 

 

 

 

 

 

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