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"I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness."
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"She haunts my dreams.Shadows of the past.Ripping my heart down the seams.No one to blame but me.I'm a lone wolf now, but I still stare up at the moon, Call her name and wonder if she's looking too."
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"You will answer this day for your treason.' Then he added solemnly, 'You break my heart, brother.' Before Eyramus could blink Thristan was gone."
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"There was an image in my mind-an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It wasn't like this. It was always at night with candles flickering lazily, music filling the air with a sexy melody, and maybe a bubble bath. But no. It was infinitely better, and there was no froo froo, stereotypical scene that played out. It was incredible. Brilliant. Amazing. Indescribable, really. Like all the planets in the galaxy aligned for a perfect moment in time. As if this was the beginning of time. From now until the rest of eternity, everything finally had meaning."
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"If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business."
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"When I battle wits with Jarod Kintz I always feel like I need to take my brain out to give him a transplant. Bad part is we don't have any."
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"He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable?"
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"When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise."
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"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss."
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"When you truly love someone, you don't want anything except giving everything you have."
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"Male social conditioning encourages boys and men to aim to bed as many women as possible....so much so, that their self esteem and self worth become intertwined with the number of sexual partners they have; and when that number is low or even zero, so too is their self-confidence."
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"Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all."
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"If people are not in the process of production, they don't deserve anything."
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"That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it."
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"I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold."
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"He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel."
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"I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than joining the bodies."
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"Even a child can offer ideas for improvement."
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"What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy household - that feeling of being perched and listening, the way an animal must feel at night in the dark, assessing danger."
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"I do not subscribe to the abuse 'victim' or 'survivor' labelling mentality. I have experienced every kind of abuse imaginable and I am and always have been the most happy-go-lucky, positive and life affirming person around. Your labels do not serve you, so don't use them as an excuse to be miserable. You have a beautiful life to live, so accept the beauty and start living."
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"When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage."
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"Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds."
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"Don't try to avoid criticism. If you do nothing, you will be nothing. If you do only the parts you really love, you will also be nothing. It takes what it takes. It takes all of it. Own it, accept it, embrace it and do it. Want all of what you want!"
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"What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?"
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"She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations."
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"Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy."
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"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
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"You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours."
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"She asked, 'Is there anything I can do to help?'He buried his nose in her hair, took a deep breath and sighed. 'You help just be being here.'Well, that bit is easy, ' she told him with a smile. 'Because I wouldn't be anywhere else."
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"No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you, to be a better man."
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"Beneath her curls, I forget the world,With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold. Love is as much in her heart as in mine,But she doesn't say it, her punishment so divine."
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"I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all."
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"Be happy while you have breathe."
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"I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?"
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