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“Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When they are gone, you will remember every single opportunity you had to speak with them. And didn’t.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You: Just the Words

“The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.”
― Bob Gibson

“This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in their relationships. Sometimes our love becomes distorted by our feelings of insecurity and our fear of abandonment. This is the often the case with those who become overly controlling and overly smothering of their partner. Others become emotionally abusive because of their fear of intimacy.”
― Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

“A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.”
― Anupama Garg

“People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Stephen Carpenter, Killer

“Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.”
― Touaxia Vang