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“How does a master manipulator create and sustain faith? Why do his converts persist in believing things that are patently false?—also”
― The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
― The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
“You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”
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“I can tell you that banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase people, a belief system, or culture.”
― The Librarian of Burned Books
― The Librarian of Burned Books
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Circe
― Circe
“But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we’re giving our heart to won’t break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don’t have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing. When you climb a mountain or sail an ocean, you’re rewarded for staying in control. Perhaps that’s another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It’s the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.”
― Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
― Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
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