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“ou think that the people you push away will eventually leave because there is something about you deep down that you think is unlovable. People leave because you push them away. You first treat them like they are very important to you and then in an eye blink you cut them off.”
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“Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.”
― The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
― The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do, the where-are-you-from, the what-neighborhood, the what-college, the despair of trying to explain oneself.”
― The Answers
― The Answers
“(...) I was dreading the dinner because I knew that once I found myself in the dining-room seated (...), it would no longer be possible to remain a silent spectator, I should be obliged to try and think of things to say. It had been drummed into me all my life (...) that silence at meal times is anti-social.
-'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say (...)”
― Love in a Cold Climate
-'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say (...)”
― Love in a Cold Climate
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