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"What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I'm sorry. I was just so tired.I meant in the dream."
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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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"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."
"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."
"Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down."
"As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others' opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt."
"She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world."
"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game."
"I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did."
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"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."
"I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it."
"The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic."
"I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it."
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."
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