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Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to? ↗

— Courtney Summers

#relationships #friendship

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say, seed of discord is being planted in your relationship. ↗

— Toba Beta

#force #friendship #relationship #friendship

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#humor #on-fiction #humor

He shrugged. “I have a stomach thing. Don’t get close.” “Well, now you’ve spoiled everything,” I said casually, working hard to fake it. “I was planning to seduce you in the broom closet.” I pointed. “Right there.” A joyless smile appeared on Jamie’s lips. “We are far too screwed-up for a goddamned love triangle.” That’s my Jamie. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#funny #funny

Dude, your girlfriend is so far past high maintenance even the janitor quit. ↗

— Samantha Young

#high-maintenance #humor #humor

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. ↗

— Ken Venturi

#memories #money #never #spend #victory

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#accused #defend #defended #democracy #discuss

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. ↗

— Charles Vest

#balanced budget #been #being #budget #close

Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#frank #glass #humor #incognito #looking

There's always two ways of looking at things... that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it. ↗

— D.J. MacHale

#loyalty #friendship