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Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Hurt
World
Inflict
Hurts
Heal
Courage
Takes

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I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.
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Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.
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Perhaps that was the point life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.
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Don’t let them see you weak.
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Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.
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Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.
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I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
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His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. I could've made you happy, dove. You did, I whispered
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Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.
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I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.
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Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.
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He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.
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Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.
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