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Here, there was no clear answer to the modern dating conundrums or to the question of who was really the unstable one. After being ghosted, it’s inevitable to ask what went wrong and to blame yourself, and this frustration drives Robert to
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“The profession, either navy or army, is its own justification. It has every thing in its favour; heroism, danger, bustle, fashion. Soldiers and sailors are always acceptable in society. Nobody can wonder that men are soldiers and sailors.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“The only thing I ever truly made was Americans (Ben Franklin)”
― Seventh Son
― Seventh Son
“Sometimes, in order to keep from quitting, you must bully or cajole yourself. You are fatigued from this reading, though it doesn’t show, so you get no credit for your stamina. If only, when reading difficult material, your face grew red and sweaty. If only your breathing grew ragged and labored. Like during great exertion at the gym. Dead Lift and Chest Press. Hammer Curl and Lat Raise. And now, the hardest exercise of all: Lick Finger to Turn Page. You can do it, B.A.: two more sets of eight reps.”
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
“Someone may be sincere, but be sincerely wrong!”
― Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together
― Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together
“maybe she was just so used to getting away with everything, maybe she couldn’t believe she’d ever have to pay, flashing her devil-may-care grin over her shoulder as she fishtailed on her Big Wheel, leaving me behind in a spray of gravel, me always running, running to catch up”
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
― The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
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