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“I guess it's true, what they used to tell me-- if you can get through the worst, you'll see the best”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“If you loved me you wouldn't make me so unhappy.
I do love you. Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.”
― William Somerset Maugham

“...he's the dreamer of a beautiful dream, and even if the dream doesn't come true, it's rather thrilling to have dreamt it.”
― William Somerset Maugham

“The best to be said for it is that when you've come to the conclusion that something is inevitable all you can do is make the best of it.”
― William Somerset Maugham

“And if I do it you'll be happy and things will be like they were and you'll love me?
I love you now. You know I love you.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

“It is always essential that we love to do what we are doing-- do it with a heart.”
― Virigina Woolf

“I can write and write and write now: the happiest feeling in the world.”
― Virigina Woolf

“First she starved herself of love, which meant also life.”
― Virigina Woolf

“You think everyone you like is special.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I should have known it wouldn't work out between us.
Didn't we always know that? he said.
I paused for a second. Then I just said: I didn't.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Because he made her so happy, she said, and for that moment believed it.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“What's the matter, Maria said, standing in the doorway in the dark.
It isn't any better.
How do you know.
He said nothing,
I mean we didn't even try.
You don't want it.
I do too.
No, he said. You don't.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“I love you," she whispered, but it was more a plea than a declaration and in any case he made no response.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“It's all gone with you," he said. "It used to be there but it's gone."
"Listen," she said as if by rote. "I love you.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“He had shrugged and said that the course of true love never was a straight flush.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

“We can have everything."
"No, we can't."
"We can have the whole world."
"No, we can't."
"We can go everywhere."
"No, we can't. It isn't ours any more."
"Its ours."
"No, it isn't.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

“I used to think this was funny, Eric says.
What's funny?
Us talking around in circles.
It was never supposed to be funny.
You're right.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry

“You were restless?"
"I was thinking of you.”
― Wilkie Collins

“It will be better for both of us Let me go.”
― Wilkie Collins

“the one who wants to love you, but often
isn't good at even that, the one who
doesn't want to be diminished
by how much she wants to be yours.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
― W.H. Auden

“Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.”
― W.H. Auden

“Are you married?"
"No, but I hope to be."
"The more of a fool you are," he said. He seemed very angry. "A man must not marry.
"Why, Signor Maggiore?"
"Don't call me 'Signor Maggiore.'"
"Why must not a man marry?"
"He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose."
He spoke very angrily and bitterly, and looked straight ahead while he talked.
"But why should he necessarily lose it?"
"He'll lose it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

“I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“How good it is to love
live things, even when what they've done
is terrible, how much we each want to be
the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose
into out own wide open without a single
harness of sin to stop us.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“I'll never see you again, but that's a note I tear up in my mind.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room