We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIf the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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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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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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