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0e64fc4
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We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.
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past
finality
if-only
leaving
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Richard Ford |
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ec52b84
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When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness...In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.
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abuse-survivors
letting-go
truth
survivor-of-abuse
survivors-of-abuse
child-sexual-abuse-survivor
if-only
child-abuse
survivor
healing
abuse-recovery
powerlessness
powerless
child-sexual-abuse
incest
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Maureen Brady |
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39eda6c
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And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two.
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if-only
star-crossed-lovers
the-sea-the-sea
iris-murdoch
in-another-life
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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98756c2
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I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell--just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later--I wish I'd told him.
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romance
love
if-only
declaration-of-love
henry-and-cato
iris-murdoch
romantic-love
gender-roles
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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66bc4be
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Beyond her declaration of love she could not see. But as she rehearsed the intensity of her passion she thought that he , when the time came, . The desire to, at the right time, him became, as the years moved forward toward that time, increasingly painful, like a poisoned wound that must heal itself by breaking open. She thought in anguish of the times, the recent times, when she could have told him, and had been afraid to, and had clumsily withdrawn, when she could have attracted him and drawn his attention to her. When she had watched over him when he was sleeping in the sedan-chair and could have wakened him with a kiss. If only she had , then she could more easily have borne his not preferring her. He was ready to fall in love -- and if he had -- he must have loved her -- if he had known how much she loved him. The pain of this loss burnt her in every waking moment, that awful 'if only'. She had lost him, and lost him through her own fault. There were no more pleasures now in life.
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loss
suffering
if-only
missed-chance
missed-opportunity
the-green-knight
iris-murdoch
unspoken
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |