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Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "The Diaries of Franz Kafka,"

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i’ve never felt so alone

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— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

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Safia Elhillo from “Geneva”, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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“Learn to live without the person you can’t live without.”

— thoughtsofla

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“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”

— Marie Lu, Champion

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“Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.”

— Clairabelle Ann

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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

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“The ones who notice the storm in your eyes, the silence in your voice and the heaviness in your heart are the ones you need to let in.”

— Steve Maraboli

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“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

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“Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.”

— Kamla Bolanos

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Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Wild Nothing"

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- f.k.q

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell (August 1908)

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“I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.”

— Beau Taplin

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“I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.”

— Unknown

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