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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."

"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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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
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