Passion.

There are so many wonderful, chilling, inspiring, uplifting and mesmerizing quotes I have heard over the years. I am a total quote-slut. {Totally just made that word up, by the way. Don’t steal it!}

Few quotes resonate within me as deeply and to my core as this one. Ignore that it came from a teen TV series, okay? You never know just where you might find inspiration.

“Passion…it lies in all of us.
Sleeping. Waiting.
And though unwanted, unbidden…
It will stir..Open its jaws and howl.
It speaks to us, guides us.
Passion rules us all and we obey.
What other choice do we have?
Passion is the source of our finest moments.
The joy of love…the clarity of hatred..
and the ecstacy of grief.
It hurts sometimes more than we can bear.
If we could live without passion,
maybe we’d know some kind of peace.
But we would be hollow.
Empty rooms: shuttered and dank.

Without passion…
we’d be truly dead.”

— Angelus – Passion (2:17 episode 29)

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