They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

—Emily Dickinson

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About Emily Dickinson

Portrait of Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but...

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Forever is composed of nows.

—Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate.

—Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility…

—Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead- / 'Tis starving makes it fat.

—Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

—Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games

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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

—Veronica Roth in Divergent

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

—Emily Dickinson

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The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept?

Such a house could even be the whole world.

—Lydia Millet

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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

—Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

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