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“The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, "there are just one-and-only moments.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Like poetry that is recited but never written down, more powerful because it is held solely in the mind.”
― The Lost Wife
― The Lost Wife
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
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“There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.”
― The Rhythm of Memory
― The Rhythm of Memory
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