Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Ann Brashares
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  2. Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you. - Ann Brashares

  3. I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart? - Margaret Atwood

  4. To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. - Dashiell Hammett

  5. But I don't want more things than I need, either. - Isabel Allende

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  1. Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

  2. When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

  3. Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

  4. Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

  5. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

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