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“Maybe pretense was all there was. Fashion is pretense, education is pretense, personality, too, is a form of internalized pretense. I wondered what my true essence would be, if I were solitary, in nature, untamed and unconditioned.”
― The Coin
― The Coin
“The more contradictions in your life, the more complex your identity, the harder your soul, the more difficult it is to love and be loved.”
― The Coin
― The Coin
“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― The Safekeep
― The Safekeep
“The priest says that love isn’t a feeling. It’s not the butterflies in your tummy you get in the giddy early days of a relationship. The butterflies don’t last, he says. Love is something you deliberately decide to do through repeated actions of care. Love is something you make.”
― Evenings and Weekends
― Evenings and Weekends
“sometimes wheels are set in motion long before the spark is manifest. Is that the same thing as fate? I don’t know, but I do know that rare, brilliant events take time.”
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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