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Category: Martina Boone

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

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Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

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You’re torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away,” he said. “So I vote for closer. I’ll always vote for closer.

closeness, fear, indecision, insecurity, love, risk, romance

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being ‘fine’ that we lose track of how ‘not fine’ we are.

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So many of the things she had found lately hadn’t been precisely lost. But she wasn’t found without them.

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Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?””Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

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Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

love, love-hurts, lover, regret, regrets-heartache

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

being-present, love, memories, moments, romance, sadness

Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

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Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

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In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now— not three hundred years ago— and she wondered how it was possible that so little could change. Sometimes it seemed like the world was sliding backward and no one was noticing.

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