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“You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“And when he hands me his heart, I don't know how to hold it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The mask of apparent calm, of mundane tranquility, of the joy, at once small and bright, of not knowing when this thing I can skin will be ripped off, when this thing I call mouth will lose the flesh that surrounds it, when these things I call eyes will come upon the black silence of a knife.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous