“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Choke
― Choke
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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