“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.
“Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.”
― Helen of Troy
― Helen of Troy
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
Bhanavi’s 2025 Year in Books
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