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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if...more

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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away ...more

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At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have ...more

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

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He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your o...more

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In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning;

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Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

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This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

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from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

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Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. I...more

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Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to belie...more