No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSongs are as sad as the listener.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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