Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.


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I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her s...
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Tikkun olam.”

Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. A...
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And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true.

Wh...
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Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it i...
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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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Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people c...
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She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.
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The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusion...
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
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The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
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It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care w...
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My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as...
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All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.
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Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve a...
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I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistak...
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It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth ...
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I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ...
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tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression...
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Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
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I will be the one to leave you.
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I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hoverc...
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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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contiguous, adj.

I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I kne...
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You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
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I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
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I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
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You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,...
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There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu...
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The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran...
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I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
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So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me."
She triangled...
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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people...
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exacerbate, v.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
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If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl...
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yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ...
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ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
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flux, n.

The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling...
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breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
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I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ...
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libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
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love, n.

I'm not even going to try.
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lover, n.

Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei...
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Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ...
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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ...
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There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'...
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You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all...
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There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
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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...
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Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
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How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s...
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Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ...
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It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia...
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I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ...
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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha...
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Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e...
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Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ...
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My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
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The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
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So what do you have to confess now?"
I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th...
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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw...
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