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We weren’t always the people we are now, but our memories of the past can make liars of us all.
sometimes the dust of our memories is best left unswept.
Nostalgia is a dangerous drug,
words don’t come with gift receipts and you can’t take them back.
It feels like the terms and conditions of our relationship have either been forgotten, or were never properly read in the first place.
I’ve always been better at collecting acquaintances than making friends.
Some people say that marriage is like wine and gets better with age, but I guess it all depends on the grapes. There are definitely years that were more pleasurable than others, and I’d have bottled them if I could.
Affection is like playing the piano and you can forget how to do it without practice.
You can’t get this close to a cliff edge without seeing the rocks at the bottom,
I doubt he felt the same way, but feelings don’t have to be mutual to be real.
I wish people were more like books.
If you realize halfway through a novel that you aren’t enjoying it anymore, you can just stop and find something new to read.
Same with films and TV dramas. There is no judgment, no guilt, nobody even needs to know unless you choose to tell them. But with people, you tend to have to see it through to the end, and ...
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I’m someone who needs space, a little time on my own.
Word of the year: growlery noun. A place of refuge or sanctuary for use while one is feeling out of sorts. A private room, or den, to growl in.
why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.
Enjoy the stories of other people’s lives, but don’t forget to live your own.
You can’t unbreak an egg when you’ve already whisked it into an omelette.
There are forests less shady than my wife.
Life makes other plans when people forget to live.
Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawns their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves.
I don’t know who I’m supposed to be if I can’t be the me I dreamed I would be.
When you reach the top of a hill, you can often look back and see the whole path you took to make the journey. But while you’re on the path, it’s sometimes impossible to see where you are going or where you have been.
One bad decision often leads to another and then, before you know it, there is no way back to where you were.
our secrets have a habit of finding us, and everything she tried to run away from caught up with her eventually. Covering her present with the dust of her past.
if there’s one thing I have learned from life as well as fiction, it’s that nobody is ever just a hero or just a villain. We all have it in us to be both.”
Silence cannot be misquoted.
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
Gossip is almost always jealousy’s love child.
Word of the year: metanoia noun. A transformative change of heart. The journey of changing one’s mind, self, or way of life.
dreams can only come true if we dare to dream them in the first place.
Hindsight tends to be cruel rather than kind.
None of us know when we’re checking out, life isn’t that kind of hotel.
