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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

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When you love someone you let them take care of you.

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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you ...more

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if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

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The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they...more

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You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams.

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What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either becau...more

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If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. A...more

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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happ...more

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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the s...more

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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."..."Can't you hear it?" you...more

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She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us ex...more

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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.