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“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
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“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.”
― This Lullaby
― This Lullaby
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