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title: "2 Hearts Exposed Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an unnatural gloss. We spend the rest of our lives trying to remember why we ever loved so passionately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-smith/children-lose-their-innocence-piece-by-piece-the-layers-are-carved/)

[Deborah Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-smith/)

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> [“The reality is that physical or emotional pain, especially when it is chronic, has a way of stripping away the masks we tend to wear, leaving our hearts exposed and our self-sufficient ways of life threatened.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-wetherell/the-reality-is-that-physical-or-emotional-pain-especially-when-it-is/)

[Kristen Wetherell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-wetherell/)

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