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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

— Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

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It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

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