“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: "I did it myself!”
― Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry
― Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry
“The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow”
― The Tide Breaker
― The Tide Breaker
“And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”
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“Stop pretending. You wanted to be real right? This hurts, this is what it feels like, this is the growing up, the stoping pretending, the false past tap-dancing. This is the owning. This is the no-i-won’t-be-performing, this is growing out of the glamour and back into the tattered shabby mis-constructed hearts shadow. This is me owning. This is me admitting. This is me realing-up, maning-up. growing up, wanting up.”
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