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"I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week."
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"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?"

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"Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location."

"Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art."

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"Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."

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