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When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced.
“Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.”
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“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”
― Mr. Fox
― Mr. Fox
“Maybe the day has come when his desire to know is stronger than his fear of the unknown.”
― The Light of the Fireflies
― The Light of the Fireflies
“It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.”
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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