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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

Jonathan Safran Foer

This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Alive Feeling Hands Heart Touch Yourself
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
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.
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Blood Bruise Cry Feeling Life Myself Worst
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Bury Memories Opinion Ourselves Past Remain Side
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
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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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
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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Bruise Earn Feeling Hate Life Yourself
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Depend Moments Oneself
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Deep Myself Need Philosophy

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

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