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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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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."

"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."

"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."
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"I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more."


"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."


"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."


"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."
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