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“Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Educated
― Educated
“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, I had written in my journal. But Shawn had more power over me than I could possibly have imagined. He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.”
― Educated
― Educated
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
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