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“What did I do? I read books and studied. I listened to my parents and did what they asked me to. Even though, in the end, I never made them happy. I didn’t like myself, and something told me I’d end up alone.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love