Mary Countess
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He looked at the clock on the mantelpiece, more out of habit than interest. He no longer cared what time it was. It was as if he knew that from now on, there was just before and after.
“Because love isn’t like fame. It’s not something other people bestow on you. It’s not something that comes from outside. Love is something you do. Love is something you generate. And loving other people really does turn out, in the end, to be a genuine way of loving yourself.”
― The Bodyguard
― The Bodyguard
“It doesn’t hurt to spend your life with people who see what’s great about you—in a way that you maybe never would have on your own. The people we love help teach us who we are. The best versions of who we are, if we’re lucky.”
― The Bodyguard
― The Bodyguard
“he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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