“Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.”
― The One
― The One
“You can't fix people like you can solve a math problem.”
― Zenn Diagram
― Zenn Diagram
“Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were?”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― The One
― The One
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