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"Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."I still. "I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please," he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong." "I'm sorry-""Don't be sorry, either," he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more."
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"Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person."
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Personal Development

"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."
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Personal Development

"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."
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Personal Development

"Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive."
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Personal Development

"Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one."
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Personal Development

"In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel."
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Personal Development

"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
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Personal Development

"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."
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Personal Development

"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."
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Personal Development

"Do not judge. You don't know what storm i've asked her to walk through."
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"Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles."
Hate


"Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic."
Magic


"I am not myself.My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own."
Self


"His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him."
Relationship


"I'm in love with you.""Good grief." She kept walking."
Romance


"We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing and idea is a lie. I do not function properly. I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."
Philosophy


"I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it."
Romance


"I spent my life folded between the pages of books."
Reading


"Because it's so difficult to fight what you cannot control and right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark."
Psychology


"I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference."
Philosophy
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