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Brad Meltzer says I’ve been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration…

“Since the moment I saw her yesterday, I’ve been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration that comes with any old flame. But now, for the first time, I’m not just seeing what I want. I’m seeing what my friend … Continue reading

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Alain de Botton says every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge…

“Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won’t find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon … Continue reading

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John Green says you don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.” – John Green

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Hanif Kureishi says soon we will be strangers…

“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.” – Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chereau

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Iain Thomas says you still value the things you’ve lost the most…

“Yet you still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier … Continue reading

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Kamila Shamsie says somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow…

“Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.” – Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

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Brad Meltzer says I don’t think you’re in love with the past…

“I don’t think you’re in love with the past. I think you’re scared of the future.” – Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

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