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 FOERSometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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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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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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