“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Checker and the Derailleurs
― Checker and the Derailleurs
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
― Lullaby
― Lullaby
“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”
― A Lady of Persuasion
― A Lady of Persuasion
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