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Every Day (2012)
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.
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If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.
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But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.
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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
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Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
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I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.
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I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.
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I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
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Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving
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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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It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.
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Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.
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Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting
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If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
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If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.
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After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are
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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
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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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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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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
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You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.
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There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
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I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.
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When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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September 7, 1972
(age 51)
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