While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him – so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.
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.
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J.r. Ward
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
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Cassandra Clare
I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.

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Unknown
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.
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Molly Ringle
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
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Bette Midler
More Quotes By John Updike
It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
