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"How could she love him after what he did to her? How could she contemplate taking him back? It's sad that those are the first thoughts that run through our minds when someone is abused. Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?"
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"When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to-a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves."
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"If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know."
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"If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
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"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."
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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"
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"People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's."
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"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."
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"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."
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"No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own."
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"Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely."
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"When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful."
Loss
"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."
Emotions
"It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one."
Communication
"The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there."
Truth
"I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown."
Courage
"Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
Humor
"You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else."
Identity
"Naked truths aren't always pretty."
Truth
"Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky."
Love
"I press my lips to hers with such delicacy; I want her to feel everything she's ever deserved to feel at the hands of someone else. She deserves to feel beautiful. She deserves to feel important. She deserves to feel cared for. She deserves to feel respected. She deserves to feel like there's at least one other person in this world who accepts her for exactly who she is.She deserves to know how I feel, because I feel all of those things. And maybe a little more."
Romance
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