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“If she looked into a fractured mirror, she'd see what he saw.”
― Told You Twice
― Told You Twice
“I’m just a girl from Flatbush, Bo. There’s nothing special here.”“You’re so wrong.”“I know what people think. To friends and family I’m sweet and helpless. To guys I’m a body.”“Your body is spectacular. I’m not going to pretend I don’t see that. But I can have any body. You’ve lit something inside me. And it’s you, not your assets.”“You don’t know me. We’ve hardly scratched the surface.”“That’s why I need time. I want to know your story, your dreams, your longings. Every part I see makes me want more.” He was speaking her own desire to understand him, because his real self called to her more strongly than anyone she’d known , even people she’d known for years.”
― Told You Twice
― Told You Twice
“If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.”
― Told You So
― Told You So
“The human capacity for suffering was like that for joy. It could only have the greatest impact in small doses. After that, mind and body could no longer take it in.”
― The Rose Legacy
― The Rose Legacy
“Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.”
― Told You So
― Told You So
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