We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?
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John Green
As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wantedwas to lie on the couchwith the Timesover his face,...
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Anonymous
We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.
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Kevin Reaver
If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.
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H.F. Peters
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know...
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Audre Lorde
More Quotes By Jenni Schaefer
Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn’t need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right–and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.
In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond...
With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.
Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to make that horrible prebinge feeling go away. The cool thing is that we are designed so that the feeling will pass through us...
Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it’s not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason,...
