I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the first thing I'd envied about him. It was arguably what enabled him to write the book in the first place. ("Envy")
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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Jodi Picoult
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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Bill Watterson
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Aeschylus
She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free...
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Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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Peter S. Beagle
More Quotes By Kathryn Chetkovich
I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the first thing I'd envied about him. It was arguably what enabled him to write the book in the first place. ("Envy")
