in the name of the best within us //

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memorable quotes;
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she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

→ extremely loud and incredibly close; jonathan safran foer

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shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

→ extremely loud and incredibly close; jonathan safran foer

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sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

→ extremely loud and incredibly close; jonathan safran foer

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it's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

→ extremely loud and incredibly close; jonathan safran foer

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tell me where it hurts, she'd say. stop howling. just calm down and show me where.

but some people can't tell where it hurts. they can't calm down. they can't ever stop howling.

→ the blind assasin; margaret atwood