He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Alan Hollinghurst
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  2. You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. - William W. Purkey

  3. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss

  4. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. - Elbert Hubbard

  5. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Unknown

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  1. She kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

  2. She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels, biographies, occasional books, about music and art–she could remember nothing about them at all, so that it seemed rather pointless even to say that she had read...

  3. The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

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  5. After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut....

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