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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take sh...more

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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit o...more

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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.

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The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: ...more

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But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's t...more

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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no m...more

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It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling,...more

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Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt hi...more

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It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

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Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

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It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.