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“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
― The Other Side of Life
― The Other Side of Life
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“People are not photographs. There's more to them than the style of their hair or the cut of their clothes. Think of yourself as an explorer — you need to dig to unveil the person they are on the inside.”
― The Unicorn's Tail
― The Unicorn's Tail
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