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"Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry."
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"Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests."
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Personal Development

"You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."
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Personal Development

"Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking."
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"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."
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Personal Development

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."
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Personal Development

"There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present."
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Personal Development

"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."
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Personal Development

"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."
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"She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
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"I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."
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"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
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"There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover."
Life

"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
Family

"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
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"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
Love

"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
Parenting
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