‘Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe
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“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”
― Kiss the Girls
― Kiss the Girls
“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”
― Empire Falls
― Empire Falls
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