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Quotes for friends
(2002-02-19 - 9:01 p.m.)


Hi Michelle,

If you're reading this, I just spent the last two hours looking through the previous entries in your diary.

I love the way you wear your heart on your sleeve. Reading your words made me wish that I could protect it for you, but I hardly know you.

Anyway, I remembered a quote that seemed to be appropriate to some of the things that you have written over the past few months, so here it is:

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure that your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."

- Stephen King, The Body

Take care of yourself, and thanks for writing...

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