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melody’s Quotes

“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

tags: emergency-contact, loveing, precious, the-world, traumatizing, vulnerable

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“(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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“This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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“I add: It was then that we lost touch, he and I. These last words are articulated with the least possible affect, as if life is just like that sometimes, you spend time together and then lose touch and life goes on—as if there were no breaks from which you never quite recover.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

tags: breakup, romance

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