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    Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

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    Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

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    You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

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    I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

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    this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

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    I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

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    You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

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    I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

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