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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

“I like to listen. I have learnt a lot from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“Someone who is worthy of your love will never put you in a situation where you feel you must sacrifice your dignity, your integrity, or your self worth to be with them.”

“Be yourself. People don’t have to like you, and you don’t have to care.”

“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”

“The things I find most beautiful about a person are almost never physical.”

“I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me. It was like being given a maths problem when your brain’s exhausted, and you know there’s some far-off solution, but you can’t work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.”

“Everybody has a chapter they don’t read out loud.”

“‘Something’s died in me,’ she goes. ‘It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.’”

“We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.”

“You need people in your life that are further along than you, people that are more experienced, people that are out of your league. You need to be exposed to new levels so that you can go to new levels.”