I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep. ― Kristin Cashore

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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. ― Criss Jami

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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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love the life you live. live the life you love.

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. — Alice Walker

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ― Vincent van Gogh

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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. ― Cormac McCarthy

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