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"You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas-a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
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"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
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"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
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"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
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"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."
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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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"Take care of your words and the words will take care of you."
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"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
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"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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"Silence is an arguement hard to refute."
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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
Parenting
"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"
Reflection
"Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere."
Life
"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."
Philosophy
"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"
Parenting
"You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."
Relationship
"I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet."
Psychology
"Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves."
Responsibility
"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw."
Grief
"I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register.By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart."He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass.""You'd be surprised."Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me."I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life."
Love
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