Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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Home is where your books are.

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

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