I had heard her fucking boots coming down the stairs. I shook my head, annoyed that I could tell it was her. No one else stomped around like they owned the place—not
“I like being taken care of,” she whispers, her voice barely audible. “No one ever thinks I need it, but I do. I just don’t know how to ask.”
― Because of You
― Because of You
“I am focusing on my breathing. These thoughts exist, and I am letting them pass me by.”
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“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
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“Je ne regrette rien,” I say, lifting my glass of water and sipping it. “That’s the spirit,” Evelyn says. “Although that song is more about not regretting because you don’t live in the past. What I mean is that I’d still make a lot of the same decisions today. To be clear, there are things I regret. It’s just . . . it’s not really the sordid things. I don’t regret many of the lies I told or the people I hurt. I’m OK with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly. And also, I have compassion for myself. I trust myself. Take, for instance, when I snapped at you earlier, back at the apartment, when you said what you did about my confessing sins. It wasn’t a nice thing to do, and I’m not sure you deserved it. But I don’t regret it. Because I know I had my reasons, and I did the best I could with every thought and feeling that led up to it.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You’re new to long-term relationships that you actually want to be in, but let me tell you something I know for sure: You don’t love someone only when it’s convenient or easy. You love them when it’s fucking awful and the world is falling apart around you.”
― Wild Eyes
― Wild Eyes
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