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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“You get married to get an ally against your family.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
― On Beauty
― On Beauty
“I used to think it bordered on tragedy the way families lose touch, the way people sever ties, putting a pretty place to live above being together. But now I realize that's just how people like it. They don't always want to be together.”
― Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
― Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
“There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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