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Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt hi...more

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It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

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Words, he knew, could scar.

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Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

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But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

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It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

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It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who ...more

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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take sh...more

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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those thin...more

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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no m...more