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‘You have to have something on the line, for it to be called character.’ ”
“If you have a particularly rude or pushy person in your life, you can use my favorite boundary phrase, which is “thank you for your concern, but I am not taking any feedback on this issue right now.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“Ah. Life goes on. But does it really? Not the same life, that was for sure.”
― The Women
― The Women
“I spent so much time accustoming myself to one kind of surprise—the kind hinging on disappointments, hurts, small abandonments, and emotional bartering—that I’d stopped considering there might be any other.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn to live with both sides of that same coin and see the light in the darkness. The world is Beautiful Ugly, relationships are Beautiful Ugly, love is Beautiful Ugly. Understanding that makes life easier to live with.”
― Beautiful Ugly
― Beautiful Ugly
“No one’s coming to save you. You have to do it.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
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