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"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."
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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."

"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."

"I embrace my sensitivity and let it enhance my joy every day."
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"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."


"I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me," I say quickly."I want to, though."


"You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise or destruction. Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness. Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either."


"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."


"It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever."


"The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look."
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