“You don’t get to dictate how I feel. You might give the orders out there, but not in here. You don’t get to tell me we can fuck but I can’t fall for you. That’s not fair. You can only respect what I choose to do. So we’re not doing this
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“Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.”
― Break Up, Don't Break Down
― Break Up, Don't Break Down
“Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.”
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“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
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“a lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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