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" Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they will tell us that we make sense?" Rudy Francisco

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" Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well, you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me." Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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"Finally, in a low whisper, he said, 'I think I might be a terrible person.' For a split second I believed him- I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realised that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing."

Miranda July, The First Bad Man

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" I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. in a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, disappointment or fear, or we are all defined by something we can't change."

Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

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"What we miss- what we lose and what we mourn- isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have."

- Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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"There is a loneliness that only exists in one's mind. 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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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"Listen to me, girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, Queens cower before no man."

Nikita Gill

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"Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave."

George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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"Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.

"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back."

- Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"I have seen him, and oh! to see him is perfect happiness." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray