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

"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?"

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

"Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location."

"Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art."

"Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings."

"He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?"

"Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."
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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."


"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."


"I didn't yet know that romantic heroes-famous and not-are usually aimless nomads in disguise."
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