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"Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean."

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"

"So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day."

"I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic."

"I think about you every second of every day and I don't know how to get over you, she says."Don't, I beg her. "Please don't get over me."

"I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing."
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"She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror."

"He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?"

"Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face of adversity, than be the one who begs you to see her frown."

"When our eyes met, I felt your intake of breath. I knew then I wasn't alone in my feelings. You were trying to hold on to normalcy as much as me. But baby, what we felt was anything but normal. The damn planet stopped moving... and it didn't start up again until you reached out and touched me."

"Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink every last drop."

"I always wanted you close. Never more than a heartbeat away. I used to think I wanted you most when I was at my weakest, and relying on your strength. But the truth is, even on the days I raged like a lion, and had no need of a 'pat on the back' - I still found myself wanting to lean on you."
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