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The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.Shelly Crane
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Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.Shelly Crane
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When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?” I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?Shelly Crane
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Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.Shelly Crane
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Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.Shelly Crane
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There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.Shelly Crane
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There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasn’t sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before I’d given him a chance to show him what it was like to ride out the storm.Shelly Crane
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But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.Shelly Crane