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Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here, ” she said.“ Don’t you want it?”“ Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.”“ Why?” Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?”“ Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it, ” I said.“ So it’s really amazing cake, ” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it. .E. Lockhart
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You can love more than one person, she said. That's arguable. Why is it any different from having more than one friend? You're friends with me and you also have other friends, does that mean you don't really value me? I don't have other friends, I said.Sally Rooney
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When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with throngs of girls crossing back and forth in the schoolyard, beyond that the world, how I wished that everything would fall away, so that suddenly we'd be sitting in some different atmosphere, with no future full of ridiculous demands, no need for any sustenance save our love for each other, with no hindrance to any of our desires, which would, of course, be simple desires – nothing, nothing, just sitting on our tombstones forever.Jamaica Kincaid
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Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposedBell Hooks