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“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

— Richard Siken, Editors Page: The Long and the Short of It

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Why Tinkerbell Quit Anger Management,"

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Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.”

— Brigitte Nicole

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“She picked up the pieces of her life and created something beautiful. From that day forth she shone like the sun and changed the definition of broken.”

— Randall M. Core

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the overwhelming feeling of sadness sometimes when someone treats me with kindness

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Constantine P. Cavafy, from The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy; "On The Stairs,"

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staring in the mirror asking why are you so cruel to me

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— Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

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Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

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— Ezra Koenig, Vampire Weekend

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A. R. Ammons, from a poem titled "Shot Glass," featured in The New Yorker

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Gustave Flaubert, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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— Anaïs Nin, from The Voice