156 Quotes About Walls

  • Author Roxane Gay
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    I am not cold. I wasn’t ever cold. My warmth was hidden far away from anything that could bring hurt because I knew I didn’t have the inner scaffolding to endure any more hurt in those protected places.

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  • Author Patrick Carman
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    It seems as though the only things causing pain around here are these ridiculous walls we keep building.

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  • Author Bijou Hunter
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    I want you,” he whispered, holding my face with both hands. “Fuck that. I need you, Farah. I need to help you knock down all of those walls. I promise it’ll be great if you trust me.” “I do.” “You do,” he said, his eyes locked on mine. “I feel you lowering another wall and nothing feels better.

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  • Author Lauren Oliver
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    I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever.Take down the walls.

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  • Author Elizabeth Winder
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    Out of the blue Sylvia said, ‘People are like boxes. You would like to open them up and see what’s inside, but you can’t.’ Sylvia was interested in people and recognizing how individuals create their own kind of camouflage- the ‘lids on the boxes’, so to speak.

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  • Author Robin Black
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    My mother's death...seemed so much the focal point of all personal history in our lives, it was as though time began for us when it stopped for her. Maybe this is what happens to everyone - not necessarily sudden deaths , but certain events that create distinct before and after lines, walls really, requiring a great effort to climb, discouraging doing so.

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