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"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."
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"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."
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"Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe."
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"It's very true; there are many more iron pots certainly than porcelain. But you may depend on it that every one bears some mark; even the hardest iron pots have a little bruise, a little hole somewhere. I flatter myself that I'm rather stout, but if I must tell you the truth I've beenshockingly chipped and cracked. I do very well for service yet, because I've been cleverly mended; and I try to remain in the cupboard-the quiet, dusky cupboard where there's an odour of stale spices-as much as I can. Butwhen I've to come out and into a strong light-then, my dear, I'm a horror!"
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"When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!"
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"The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability."
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"Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."
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"What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her."
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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. 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 my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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"We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first."
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"There were things she wanted to say, but they were all jumbled up in her head and if she tried they'd come out backwards and mixed up and wrong. There were things she needed to say, but she was hanging on by a fraying thread and feared if she tried the thread would break, sending her plummeting alone into the abysm.There were things she would have to say, but they should wait for later. After."
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"If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight."
Courage
"I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise."
Values
"If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything."
Support
"Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them."
Devotion
"I will help build your museum. When you run out of space to hang your work. You can hang your work in mine."
Support
"Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?"
Culture
"The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside."
Boundaries
"Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better."
Critique
"I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all."
Isolation
"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."
Creation
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