My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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