Words

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They looked at one another for a long moment without moving, without speaking, and in the soil of that look many years were buried.

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

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To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk.

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Less and less was I struck with the compromise I'd made, and pretty soon it looked just like real life.

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But I was still sure there was a grandiose golden sunset somewhere in the sky.

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Even if you distance yourself from Facebook, you still live in the world that Facebook is shaping.

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I didn't know when this started happening, when I would turn to my mother for comfort and find myself very quickly being her counsellor.

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Making a large city seem small takes work, and being a regular costs money.

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You'll find her reassuringly expensive and successfully cute.

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There is nothing better than having zero expectations and then the night leading somewhere you never thought of.

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Sometimes what I want to say is “I want you to be mine!” Sometimes it is “I feel trapped!” Sometimes it is “I resigned myself to a fate I thought I wanted, but now I don't!”

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Even though we are looking at each other, I am still hiding. My dark eyes are good for that.

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Don't you know two weeks in the summer is a long time? I could be married and divorced by then.

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If you asked me four years ago whether I'd be scared of getting on your bad side, I would've said of course not, but now I'm not so sure.

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My language was always overflowing, my conversation frenetic, and I came to my conclusions only incidentally.

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Whenever a woman comes into a room and people find out she has a significant other, it suddenly takes the sting out of her. She is no longer a threat.

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Being unattached is exhausting.

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