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#1

“There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

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#2

“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

tags: bittersweet, broken-heart, mr-stevens, powerful, rejection, simple

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#3

“But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.”
― Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

tags: best, bittersweet, ockler, sarah, sunshine, times

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#4

“Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives. They become your friends, acquaintances, enemies. And after the story ends, you miss them. You look for them in your own life, wonder where they’ve gone, you forget that they aren’t real. You fall in love with the hero and dream of him at night. The strange girl becomes your best friend. Their heartaches become your heartaches. You laugh when they laugh. And cry when they die. Eventually you realise they aren’t a part of your world, you were just briefly visiting theirs.”
― Whimsical Enlightenment

tags: bittersweet, tumblr

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#5

“If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

tags: bittersweet, life-and-death

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#6

“If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: appendix, bittersweet, costs

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#7

“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

tags: bittersweet, love, romance, starcrossed

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#8

“Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?”
― Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song

tags: bittersweet, good-and-bad, joy-and-pain, joy-and-sorrow, life-lessons

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#9

“Giggles gave way to gasps when his face split into a grin, never mind that he was looking right at her. When he strode across the room and slumped languidly into the seat next to her, the whole room went silent.”
― Tyffani Clark Kemp, Bittersweet

tags: bittersweet, bittersweet-series, lirabel, tyffani-clark-kemp

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#10

“I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.”
― J.R R. Tolkien

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#11

“He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.”
― James Salter, Light Years

tags: belinda-mckeon, bittersweet, epigraph, friend, friendship, once-in-a-lifetime, poignant, sad, tender

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#12

“We wander in our thousands over the
face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the
seas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to me
that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.
We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--those whom we
obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most
free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties,--even those for whom
home holds no dear face, no familiar voice,--even they have to meet the
spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its
valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its trees--a
mute friend, judge, and inspirer.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: bittersweet, family, ghosts, home, home-town, homecoming, humanity, mankind, old-friends, prodigal-daughters, prodigal-sons, return, reunion, stomping-grounds

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#13

“We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: bittersweet, fitz, fool, head, heart, imagine, longing, smile

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#14

“She smiled. She was happy, yet sad. Life had never been more bittersweet. She looked at the
sunset. The pink sky was sinking into the deep blue ocean. It was almost as if the sky knew
it was making a mistake, digging its own grave. But for a moment there, at the very moment
before diving into the darkness of the sea, on the golden horizon, the sky shone brighter
than it ever had. It was glorious in its five seconds of fame. It was serendipitously happy,
like all its life had led to that moment. And then it died into the sea, content.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, The Terrorist's Daughter

tags: bittersweet, life, melancholy

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#15

“We are nothing but shadows
Fading away
Trying to hold on to
This bittersweet life
That we call our own...”
― Ricky Mears

tags: bittersweet, bittersweet-life, fading-away, lyrics, shadows, song

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#16

“I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.”
― Alicia Kobishop, The Fine Line

tags: angst, angsty-love, bittersweet, love, relationship, romance

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#17

“He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir Alistair stopped and looked back, looking with affection at Marco, Yipes, and me. "We all play our part. Some roles just dray on a little more than others.”
― Patrick Carman, Stargazer

tags: affection, bittersweet, land-of-elyon, plans, roles

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#18

“Had I only known my letters
Would be of such importance
I’d empty myself on paper
Every single morning’

And it was for such reason,
as she read his little stanza,
that she decided to stamp
one
final
letter:

‘Every single morning
I’d empty myself on paper
You were my greater importance
That’s why I wrote you letters.”
― Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives

tags: bittersweet, danish-poetry, irony-of-life, letters, love, mie-hansson, poetry-quotes, separation, where-pain-thrives

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#19

“The chilling thought occurred to me that breaking up with someone you love to criticize might be the only way to save yourself from becoming unlovable”
― Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot

tags: bittersweet, humor, love

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