“No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.”
― Harvard Square
― Harvard Square
“She fought for the right to love, men and women, rejecting the conventions that marriage demands exclusive love, and that women should love only men, and men only women. For this she was prepared to give up everything … How could she regret that the knowledge of it should now reach the ears of a new generation, one so infinitely more compassionate than her own?”
― Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
― Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― The Devilin Fey
― The Devilin Fey
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