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To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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