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"You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place."
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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."
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Personal Development

"The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive."
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Personal Development

"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
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Personal Development

"When I am with you, even the water makes me drank."
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Personal Development

"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
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"Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless."
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Personal Development

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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Personal Development

"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."
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Personal Development

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
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Personal Development

"Despair is criminal."
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"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."
Community

"It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven."
Forgiveness

"Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her."
Emotion

"I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?"
Sensitivity

"You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried."
Persistence

"What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them."
Legacy

"Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever."
Transformation

"Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair."
Love

"Healing wasn't always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that."
Life

"She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand."
Generosity
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