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“Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl,…

— Nahoko Uehashi

“Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be…

— Carol Shields

“And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.”

— Eudora Welty

“It was a long mile before I could speak, to give him my practiced answer. The cliff I had always feared was just ahead,…

— Judy L. Mandel

“... he thought how the young are pierced by love, innocent bodies torn and ruined for no reason, save that it suited someone who…

— Joe Hill

“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put…

— John McGahern

“It took another time, more waves rolling up, to understand that he had no idea what it would be like to live without fear…

— Cynthia Voigt

“Nubs cried as he chased them across the cold, coarse sand. Because of his wound, he could not keep up. He dropped to the…

— Brian Dennis

“He was strength and safety; fire and desire; comfort and happiness. In short, he was the man I loved.”

— Cayla Kluver

“He’d never felt like this with any of them. If only he’d known what feeling to look for, he could have saved himself from…

— Ryan Loveless

“... he had never once been frightened of a living one before. They were too fragile, too easily broken and dismantled: They had bones…

— Lauren Oliver