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"Whenever you are starting to feel disconnected from yourself, you can ask yourself: What are you not being honest about?"

Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (via larmoyante)

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the only facts

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Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, 2004

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

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Linda Pastan, Instruction

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Bridges of Madison County (1995)

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Love leaves scars.

Stephen King, Joyland

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Stephen King, Joyland

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I don’t know that we are ever really okay in life, but there are times when we feel closer to it - when we don’t remember what it feels like to suffer.

Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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She was very intelligent, very perceptive, but she would throw caution to the winds to follow her feelings, even to her own detriment. In some ways she's had a raw deal in life, because she feels things so deeply. Nobody guesses that—or when they do, they take advantage.

William Blezard, as quoted in Steven Bach’s Marlene Dietrich - Life & Legend

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The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran, How To Build A Girl 

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No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you're gonna get hurt. That's just the nature of caring about someone. No matter who you love, they will break your heart along the way.

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero 

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I get really angry at people who are mean to other people. Isn't life hard enough without people making it worse for each other? I think the people who do, who set out to make others feel bad, feel bad and alone themselves and they don't want to feel alone, so they make other people feel bad. So they'll just feel bad but also maybe, not so alone.

Iain Thomas, How To Be Happy

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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked. How do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet, at the same time, remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Bell Hooks, All About Love

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“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. "

Augusten Burroughs, Dry

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It is a wonderful thing to know and understand friendship. It is a gift, without question. I have been blessed with a handful of the most extraordinary friends, whose allegiance and devotion have, again and again in my life, lifted me up.

Kate Mulgrew, Born With Teeth