It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Unknown
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
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Nicholas Sparks
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
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Chuck Palahniuk
Where there is love there is life.
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Mahatma Gandhi
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted....
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Henry Rollins
More Quotes By Allegra Goodman
In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen’s lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. “Take these, ” she told Lorraine. “We can’t eat them all, but Helen won’t stop baking.”“ Sweetheart, ” Lorraine said, “everybody mourns in her own way.” Helen mourned her sister...
Jeanne’s sisters thought nothing of themselves.... Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy almond cookies. Alone in her kitchen, she wrapped these offerings in waxed paper and froze them in tight-lipped containers.... Helen was the baker...
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
