Nicole B.
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Reacting to humiliation with extreme anger is often an attempt to ward off underlying shame. The stronger the reaction, the deeper the shame.
“you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next, as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.”
― Crank
― Crank
“When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
― Glass
― Glass
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
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“The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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