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“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

Earn me. My trust does not come easily. Maybe I have had more reasons not to believe in anyone or anything than you think. Just because I smile and sigh light, does not mean that I have never met the dark when in fact the intensity of this shine directly correlates to how much darkness I have faced. Don’t think I am easy when I am anything, but that. Don’t think that my innocence means I am gullible. I am nobody’s fool, mind you that. You would never know what these eyes of mine have seen, what this soul has walked through. My book is light even if the gravity of the story is heavy. This softness that I keep is not my weakness, but my strength by choice as I know that bitterness and hardness only kills what is left of living. I live by my own rules. I set the pace of the algorithm with my unpredictability. I will never be quite what you expect because there are parts of me that refuse to be tamed, always simmering right below the surface despite the honeyed sweetness. You said your hands could handle wildflower curves, prove it. The greater the effort the sweeter the reward. Learn me. Be the one to unlock my hidden fire.

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.”

“We mature with the damage, not with the years.”

“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well, you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”