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"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."
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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."

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

"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."

"Being sensitive is a gift that fosters peace. Help create a kinder, gentler world by embracing it."

"The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing."

"Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them."

"Emotionally intelligent people trust their instincts and can identify how certain thoughts, feelings, people, and situations make them feel."
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"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."


"I didn't know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it ruining everything Beck and I had.I didn't understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything I was, good and bad, was knotted with threads of his making, how was I supposed to know whether to love or hate him?"


"I slowly wipe my bloody hand a crossed my jacket and draw my switch blade from my pocket. I show it to him. Mutt regards it with contempt. "How is it you're thinking you'll stop e with that wee thing?" The blade snaps out audibly. Mutt would not be the largest thing to die on the slender point of it. "I don't think I'll stop you," I say. "I think that you will cut my horse and then when you come out of that stall, I will use this to cut your heart out and hand it to you."


"If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic."


"So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality."


"She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her."
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