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"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."
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"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."

"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."

"Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down."

"The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing."

"I'm afraid i'll lose you if i share all that's real.i'm afraid i'll lose myself if i don't."

"I have something for you."Yeah? What? Is it shiny?They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. "So, Riley asked, "what have you got for me? Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. "Me. And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare."

"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."

"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

"They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright."

"So what do you have to confess now?"I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this.""What is 'this'?""Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing."
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"Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee."

"She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell - even the stars didn't stand a chance."

"Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship."

"When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers - in - arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms."

"Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain."

"If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was 'tense."

"Geoff's arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British - Craphole."

"Overhead the sliver of a moon barely illuminated anything and shadows slunk on every corner."

"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea."
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