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21 " I think you and I share the same disillusionment, sprouted from long-buried hope. "
― , Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
22 " we will laugh about how there was a time, not even that long ago, when we hadn’t even met, and what were we doing not meeting, who were we fooling, whose time were we wasting? "
23 " What happened to our society to make it so we view damaged things as somehow incomplete? On the contrary, I, for one, believe it is damage that makes us whole. "
24 " But if there's a silver lining here (and you're not sure there is one), it's the assurance that what you had, whatever it was, had weight. It made an impact. "
25 " I think you're afraid of putting yourself out there because you're afraid of getting hurt, because your are–and I believe this is the clinical term–a fucking coward. "
26 " Hope that you are not the Sadness’s home, anywhere you go, no matter how far, no matter how quickly—the Sadness lives in you. "
27 " And I thought about how amazing it is that you can know somebody for sixty years and still not really know that person at all. "
28 " You would have thought there'd be more to say to each other this night before you said good-bye forever, but it turns out you'd already said everything. "
29 " The memory of whatever spark you had is rusted, corroded, hardly maintained, and scarcely revisited. This was no great affair, this thing. This was no tragic heartbreak. This was just another thing that happened in a long series of things that happened. Here's your stuff back. Have a nice life. "
30 " A statue isn’t built from the ground up—it’s chiseled out of a block of marble—and I often wonder if we aren’t likewise shaped by the qualities we lack, outlined by the empty space where the marble used to be. "