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Grown Ups
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Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss.
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
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“But Lucy, I've no money."
I put my face up to his and smiled.
He smiled back.
"Frankly my dear," I beamed, "I don't give a damn."
I had always wanted to say that.”
― Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
I put my face up to his and smiled.
He smiled back.
"Frankly my dear," I beamed, "I don't give a damn."
I had always wanted to say that.”
― Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
“A plague on both your houses.”
― Romeo and Juliet
― Romeo and Juliet
“Nostalgia: Greek compound combining nostos (homecoming) and álgos (pain). The literal Greek translation for nostalgia is "pain from an old wound.”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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