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“I thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I’d had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

— Franz Kafka

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Holding on to something non-existent in attempt to prevent your own annihilation.

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“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?”

— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

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“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

— Unknown

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“If you hear people from my past speak of me. Keep in mind they are speaking of a person they don’t even know any more.”

— Unknown

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I wish my mind would see me how I see you.

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I've spent a lifetime mending hearts, offering warmth to those who shivered in their grief. Yet now, in this stillness, I yearn for that tenderness to turn back, to cradle me as I once cradled them.

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You may have grazed my heart with cracks, but I was the one who splintered it to pieces, clinging to the hope that you might change, even though I know your nature like the pulse of my own veins.

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Whenever I'm sad every once in a while, I like to think it's my body physically getting rid of the sadness that consumes my heart. As if my heart is exfoliating all that is taunting.

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I don’t want lessons anymore. I want this to be love.

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Love seeing little pawprints. So fucking magical. There was a little guy here.

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Out of everything I'm destroying in my life, you're the one I hope doesn't fall victim to my self-hatred.