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“In a family that doesn’t do brilliant, you are threatening to change the game.”
― Erin Lee Carr

tags: parents-and-children

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“You have such a difficult time showing your heart," she muses. "You think being strong is the only way to survive. You never know when to ask for help. You never have.”
― Liz Fenton, The Two Lila Bennetts

tags: asking-for-help, being-strong, liz-fenton, mgg, self-reliance, the-two-lila-bennetts

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“It’s caring in the intimate ways without a single touch that will break down my walls, my heart carries medals of war, it doesn’t know how to love small.
Come with integrity, guts, strength or not at all.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: love, love-story, strength, strong-woman, wild-woman, wild-women

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“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: betrayal, broken-promise, trust

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“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
― Susan Cain

tags: boredom, inner-life, introversion, loneliness, strengths

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