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“I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it.”
― So Silver Bright
― So Silver Bright
“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I out on the highway this time of night?' I was miserable, and it all came to me: 'I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. I can't fall in love with this man, but it's just like a ring of fire.”
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“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“No one ever fell in love gracefully.”
― The Bridal Season
― The Bridal Season
“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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