“I just need some time in a beautiful place to clear my head.”
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“All my life I’ve thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”
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“When you have more than you need, build a longer table not a higher fence.”
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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
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“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
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“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
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“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
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“It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
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“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.” She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. “But I don’t want anything else in the world.”
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“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
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“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
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“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”