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“The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you’ve gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I’d come to see that it was usually your best course of action.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“That is, adoration was patient and waiting while love or, if you liked, plain sexual passion banged everything about. It either shouted or thought it knew too much, and it had always left him cold and had not involved his heart. Therefore, if he wanted to get involved now it would be on his own terms and at his own pace.”
― When Rain Clouds Gather
― When Rain Clouds Gather
“[T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.”
― So Much for That
― So Much for That
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“good decisions aren’t always made for healthy reasons.”
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
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