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“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
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“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Kill Me Softly
― Kill Me Softly
“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
― The Van Alen Legacy
― The Van Alen Legacy
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― Romeo and Juliet
― Romeo and Juliet
“You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?”
― The Catastrophic History of You and Me
― The Catastrophic History of You and Me
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