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"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous."
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"Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down."
"I'm afraid i'll lose you if i share all that's real.i'm afraid i'll lose myself if i don't."
"I have something for you."Yeah? What? Is it shiny?They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. "So, Riley asked, "what have you got for me? Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. "Me. And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare."
"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."
"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
"They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright."
"So what do you have to confess now?"I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this.""What is 'this'?""Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing."
"The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability."
"I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores."
"Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."
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"She existed in her friends, there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."
"The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous."
"She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing."
"She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand."
"Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still."
"She looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her."
"Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it."
"She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ..."
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