“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.”
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
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