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“You’ll find someone, Layla.” “Everyone keeps saying that, but I’m not so sure,” I confess. “I’d like something to be mine. Someone, maybe.” Mine and mine alone. Secret smiles and easy touches and lips pressed against the back of my neck.
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“Nina worried she liked being alone too much; it was the only time she ever fully relaxed. People were . . . exhausting. They made her anxious. Leaving her apartment every morning was the turning over of a giant hourglass, the mental energy she’d stored up overnight eroding grain by grain. She refueled during the day by grabbing moments of solitude and sometimes felt her life was a long-distance swim between islands of silence. She enjoyed people—she really did—she just needed to take them in homeopathic doses; a little of the poison was the cure.”
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
“No one should need a diagnosis in order to be compassionate to themself.”
― The Heart Principle
― The Heart Principle
“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”
― City of Fallen Angels
― City of Fallen Angels
“Each one to their own truth. Does anyone in this world have the power to decide between truth and untruth?”
― The Liberation of Sita
― The Liberation of Sita
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