I was looked at, but I wasn't seen.
Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding
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Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Stephen King, The Body
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I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.
Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
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a wound is still a wound, even if it doesn't bleed anymore.
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And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.
Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
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My eyes ache with the weight of unshed tears, You are my home, do you not understand?
Amy Lowell, from The Complete Poetical Works o Amy Lowell; "The Fruit Garden Path",
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I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.
Nikita Gill
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I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.
Lora Mathis
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
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Sylvia Plath, from Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices
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You know the greatest films of all time were never made.
Taylor Swift
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