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Why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

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The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

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Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

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Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

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Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

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And when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.

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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

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A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

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He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

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I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really, I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.

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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

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Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

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Seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

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Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

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There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.

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I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It's probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

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You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

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There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

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Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

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And I find myself saying, It wasn't really about her. And finding it's true. What do you mean? Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

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The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

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I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.

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