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"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."
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"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."
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"What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back."
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"He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding."
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"I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look."
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"His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him."
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"There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night."
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"Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable."
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"He reached out for her hand and she grabbed onto his. "Eena, when you're ready to talk about it, I'll be here. That's what best friends are for. She let the tears fall. He'd never know they were for him. He'd think they were because of Derian. They held hands silently throughout the night, Ian unaware that this was by far her most tortured nightmare ever. Paradise so close, and yet completely unattainable."
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"You could string a hundred endless days together,My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven't learned to love till you're insane."
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"Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything."
Self-Love
"I scream out the ropes of words that bound my tongue, and the heavens echo back...'I love you'."
Expression
"Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't."
Connection
"I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: 'Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call.' I gotcha girlfriend."
Confidence
"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?"
Sensitivity
"It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions."
Reflection
"I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us."
Commitment
"I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applaud their strength, and I remind them that we never know how strong we are until we are tested. And this life will test you... But it's not a competition. I want us all to make it."
Empowerment
"She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes."
Empowerment
"All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back."
Betrayal
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