I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
- Viola Davis

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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
- George Orwell, 1984

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
- George Orwell, 1984

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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

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We are the orphans of our son.
- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

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There is always something left to love.
- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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She asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications; and asking over and over she was stirring up her own confusion and she felt irrepressible desires to let herself go and scamper about like a foreigner and allow herself at last an instant of rebellion, that instant yearned for so many times and so many times postponed, putting her resignation aside and shitting on everything once and for all and drawing out of her heart the infinite stacks of bad words that she had been forced to swallow over a century of conformity.
- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the pavement,the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.
- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past.

But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.

- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
- Sarah Kay

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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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I understand I can’t have you. But I want to know you’re in the world with me.
- Jennifer Echols, Forget You

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I never did the best I could like I told myself I did, and that guilt almost pushed me home.
- Levi the Poet

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What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your hands, until your fingers are broken?
- Tennessee Williams

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