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Like a precious coin that has been covered by the thinnest soil the girl’s soul was too easily exposed.


“the concept of the halakhah31 that man must act not only according to general principles of justice, truth, and love, but that every act of life be “sanctified,” becoming imbued with a religious spirit. “Right action” refers to everything: to the prayer in the morning, to the benediction over food, to the sight of the ocean and of the first flower of the season, to helping the poor, to visiting the sick, to not making a man ashamed in the presence of others.”
― You Shall Be As Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and its Tradition
― You Shall Be As Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and its Tradition

“Anxiety, her therapist had told her many times, never killed anyone. It felt like death, but it was an illusion. A terrible illusion that inhabited your body and tried to make it its puppet. It told you nothing mattered because everything was made of fear.”
― The Hand on the Wall
― The Hand on the Wall

“Sometimes it feels like that’s all I’m doing every time I reach out—trying to haunt, to drag him back in time, asking him to tell me again what happened. Make me understand it once and for all. Because I’m still stuck here. I can’t move on.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa

“I don’t say it, but sometimes I feel like that’s exactly what he’s doing to me—breaking me apart, putting me back together as someone new.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa

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