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“I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.”
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“Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
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“Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“But the hardest thing is staying. The hardest thing is living with dying. Loving with dying. The hardest thing is love, with no expiration date, no qualifiers, no safety net. Love that demands acceptance of all things I cannot change. Love that doesn't follow a plan.”
― My Oxford Year
― My Oxford Year
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