Elissa
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“The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.”
― Openly Straight
― Openly Straight
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s hard to be different,” Scarborough said. “And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.”
― Openly Straight
― Openly Straight
“I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time.That's fine.”
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