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Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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في بعض الأحيان أرى أننا نفترض أننا نعني نفس الشئ لمجرد أننا نستخدم نفس الألفاظ. ↗

— أهداف سويف

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إننا جميعا يخترع بعضنا بعضا إلى حد ما. ↗

— أهداف سويف

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L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande. ↗

— Frédéric Beigbeder

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We just want to be where we're supposed to be. We just want to be with the people we want to be with. I don't think that's asking for too much, ya know what I'm saying? ↗

— Megan McCafferty

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Then when Matt had come along it hadn't been fireworks, passion and fights and drama. It had been low- key, sweet, lovely. But that didn't meant it wasn't the real thing. It never had done. Just because it wasn't suprising hadn't meant it wasn't right. ↗

— Jenny Colgan

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Have you ever wanted something so badly, thought you’d die if you didn’t get it, then when you finally did get it, you wondered what all the fuss was about? ↗

— Rachel Hawthorne

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Don’t you dare pee on me. ↗

— Roni Loren

#melt-into-you #roni-loren #love

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn’t see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over ↗

— Darryl Pinckney

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