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"The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside."
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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."
"It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored."
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
"The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing."
"I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle."
"Now she's lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night."
"The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them."
"Max is a marvel to us. He will never have to come out because he will never have been kept in. Even though he has a mom and a dad, they made sure from the beginning to tell him that it didn't have to be a mom and a dad. It could be a mom and a mom, a dad and a dad, just a mom, or just a dad. When Max's early affections became clear, he didn't think twice about them. He doesn't see it as defining him. It is just a part of his definition."
"Do you wonder why we wander? Cal had asked.It was the night of the first snow; you could hear the branches bending and the iciclesfalling outside the window, beyond the wall.They were warmth together. They were hot breath and blankets and wrapping themselves."
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"Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers."
"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"
"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."
"I tend to avoid people who always have something to say - and those who expect me to always have something to say."
"Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.-Caroline to Ursual."
"Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye."
"A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely, but be sure you get to where you are going with your words."
"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"
"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
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