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"Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts."
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"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."
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"It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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"In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings."
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"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."
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"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."
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"I'm not sure. But there's something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There's a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we'd never say in the light."
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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
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"At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries."
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"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?"
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"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."
Protection
"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."
Desire
"Can't get away from your own self."
Self
"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."
Betrayal
"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."
Self
"In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell."
Trust
"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."
Nature
"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."
Power
"I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers."
Networking
"Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer."
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