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You can never hurt me, And you will never cause me pain Cause you're made of fire, And I'm the heavy rain.

You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember.

You have been so sheltered, Deeta - more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom and I and the children. You carved out a little niche for yourself with us, somewhere you were comfortable and safe. With each passing day I have watched you close yourself off from all that is new until it becomes impossible to answer the question of who you are because you do not know yourself. I think you have courage and that you are resourceful, maybe you are brave. But at this moment I see you look at upheaval and adventure with fright in your soul, so that you see only the bad and no good at all.

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty." Levin nodded thoughtfully. "The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either.

You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

You're only naive once. Use it well.

You're not going to answer, are you?" Jaenelle asked after a minute of teeth-grinding silence. "No." "Don't you know the answer?" "Whether I know the answer or not is beside the point. It's not something a man discusses with a young girl." "But you know the answer." Daemon growled.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.