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“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life | Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway