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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."
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Personal Development
"The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive."
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Personal Development
"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
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Personal Development
"When I am with you, even the water makes me drank."
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Personal Development
"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
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Personal Development
"It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved."
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Personal Development
"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."
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Personal Development
"Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless."
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Personal Development
"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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Personal Development
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
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Personal Development
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"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."
Time
"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
Kids
"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
People
"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."
Family
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
Family
"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
Description
"I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn't picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network."
Technology
"The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse."
Mortality
"I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway."
Literature
"You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening."
Existence
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