Let love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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