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"Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?"
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"I embrace my sensitivity and let it enhance my joy every day."

"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."

"Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe."

"In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings."

"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."

"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"

"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."

"In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole."

"We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first."

"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."
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"My mind cannot grasp forever,' she told him. 'There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?"

"Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?"

"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."

"He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done."

"Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex."

"Love is wanting to be with someone all the time.It is accepting the other person with all good qualities and bad and not wanting to change any of them. It is wanting to give affection and approval and comfort and everything that is oneself,demanding nothing in return. It is - love is very difficult, Julia. It is an ideal, rarely achieved in reality because we are all selfish and imperfect beings. It is a dream, a goal, something to be aimed for."

"I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win."
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