I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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