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A broken heart can masquerade as a cold one.
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Bill supposed that for every child there was a defining age, a fixed reference point in relation to which his parents would always view him; whereas the child's own truest self would always be the present one.
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You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.
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Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.
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She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246
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Sarabeth wondered at the sheer energy it must have taken for her mother to be dissatisfied by so much. Her psyche was like a huge grid of mousetraps, set to spring at the lightest touch. There were traps for Sarabeth's father,traps for Sarabeth. The biggest trap, though, was the grid itself,the trap of being Lorelei.
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right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver
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Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had.
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Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them
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life
self-discovery
decisions
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease,
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Lonely is a funny thing," she said slowly. "It's almost like another person. After a while, it'll keep you company if you'll let it."
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