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Sensitivity Quotes
"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"
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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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"And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita."
15
"Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me? I ask.'We thought he might, my mother says.'Why didn't you stop him?'We didn't want to take away your choices, my mother says.'But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising, I say.'I think he wanted you to find your own way, my mother says. She smiles. 'In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that's why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it."
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"I think... sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we are imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death."
14
"I'm not sure. But there's something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There's a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we'd never say in the light."
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"He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?"
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"You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are."
14
"Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location."
14
"Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."
13
"Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art."
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"I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories."
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"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."
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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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