"I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."

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“That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.”

“Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."I still. "I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please," he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong." "I'm sorry-""Don't be sorry, either," he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more.”

“I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."He tries to bite my finger.I steal it back.”

“I love you," I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are.”

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”

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"Even the traditional anti-Jewish pogroms in medieval Europe were not always based on religious hatred alone. Often, anti-Semitism was combined with plunder for plunder’s sake."

— Götz Aly

Science1947

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"A better man might have handled the situation with more grace than I did. A better man would have been able to separate his personal life from his career."

— Joe Biden

Politics1942

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"The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another : I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary…"

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