“The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperone, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperone, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
“There was no salve for the space he left. If there had been—if science had developed an ointment for heartache or a pill for the lovelorn—I wouldn’t have used it. I wanted pain. I wanted cataclysmic anguish.”
—Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn
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“Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Like a sleeve caught in some implacable and uncomprehending machine, his need to be understood had become lodged in her blissful but dangerously indifferent body. He would be dragged through a crushing obsession and spat out the other end without her pulse flickering or her thoughts wandering from their chosen paths.”
—Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News