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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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“I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: drinking, relationships, women

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#4

“You don't have any weaknesses?'
'I haven't found any.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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“It hurt him, he would say, deeply hurt him, after all these years, but if you loved somebody as he did her, you had to think of them first. You couldn't be selfish with somebody you loved.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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#6

“Do you want him?"
"I want somebody," I told her. "He's as good as anybody," she said.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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#7

“She could not get his love. . .so she settled for his fear.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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#8

“Either I am to live in this world on my terms or I will die out of it.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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#9

“Some folks want to live forever. Some don't. I believe they decide on it anyway. People die when they want to and if they want to.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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#10

“You and I are the same,' he said. 'We are sick in our souls from old wounds.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

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#11

“How much love people have denied themselves through the ages because they believed they did not deserve it. As if the waste of love is not the greater tragedy.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

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#12

“We are all flawed creatures. As diamonds are flawed, each distinct imperfection makes us unique.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

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#13

“You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

tags: death, growing-up, war

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#14

“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.”
― Nicole Lyons

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