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To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.
– Leslye Walton

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  8. The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest. – Leslye Walton
  9. I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark. – Leslye Walton
  10. But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not. – Leslye Walton
  11. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
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  27. When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose. – John Kuypers
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