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“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”
― Before I Die
― Before I Die
“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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