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"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."

"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."

"Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again."

"Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down."

"As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others' opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt."

"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game."

"I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did."

"If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely."

"When I got home, my roof was gone. Overnight the weight of the snow became too much to carry. What tipped the scale? Think about it: there must have been a final snowflake that did it, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a milligram that made all the difference."

"I'm barely human. I'm more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can "touch in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!"
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"A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid stone."

"When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it."

"Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart."
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