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"You disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ..."
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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
"I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of getting, or achieving, anything that I long for will always be gravely reduced by the interminable existence of that block."
"I'm not sure. But there's something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There's a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we'd never say in the light."
"I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories."
"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."
"Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child's."
"What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her."
"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 embrace my sensitivity and let it enhance my joy every day."
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"A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground..."
"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."
"Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ..."
"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum..."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
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