Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot
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  1. Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. - J.r. Ward

  2. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? - Cassandra Clare

  3. I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
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  4. And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve. - Molly Ringle

  5. The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midler

More Quotes By George Eliot
  1. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and...

  2. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each...

  3. Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her...

  4. Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  5. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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