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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.


Audre Lorde

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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Dying in your arms sounds like bliss to me.
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ALEXANDER CHEE Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are thing...
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DEAR PAUL Being cautious ain't merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others' carelessness.
TOBA BETA May God protect me from gloomy saints.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Lord, protect me from what I want!
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TAHEREH MAFI My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to ...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I hold myself accountable. It was a classless move by me.
BILL ROMANOWSKI My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do...
CARLENE CARTER I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarde...
SYLVIA ASHTON WARNER I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth reward...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I can live with myself, if you hate me for protecting you. But I could never live with myself if I d...
PATTY RASE HOPSON Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for m...
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ATHARVA VEDA It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there h...
DACRE MONTGOMERY I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim"
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JOHN AUDUBON In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to so...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
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ASHLEY EARLEY The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could n...
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LAURELIN PAIGE But your empty eyesSeem to pass me byLeave me dancing with myself.
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SPANISH PROVERB Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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TORRIE WILSON I am so proud to call myself Canadian! Thank you, Canada, for welcoming me with open arms!
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CASSANDRA CLARE i am in need of a sudden Shift,
Your crimson lips. screaming at my Lips.
Let me hold down ...
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BETH REVIS Let me show you how beautiful life is,
Let me take away all your pain;
Let me rekindle you...
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KENDARE BLAKE I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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