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‘You look terrible.’ Only a mother can say that to you without you taking complete offence.
“No, it’s not a cliché to want to feel loved for who you really are. But if you don’t show them the real you, how can they love you? Perhaps”
― The Girl in the Letter
― The Girl in the Letter
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“because addicts are some of the most heartbreaking people to love.”
― Under Her Care
― Under Her Care
“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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