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"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."
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"I embrace my sensitivity and let it enhance my joy every day."

"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."

"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."

"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"

"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."

"We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first."

"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."

"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."

"Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location."
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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."


"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."
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