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To have wasted so much of our lives by not really living them, makes me feel so sad.
Nostalgia is a dangerous drug,
words don’t come with gift receipts and you can’t take them back.
If every story had a happy ending, then we’d have no reason to start again.
Our social circle has become a bit square.
Getting married costs a pretty penny, and pennies are prettiest when you don’t have many of them.
What he doesn’t know, is that if things don’t go according to plan, only one of us will be going home.
I’ve gotten good at feeling guilty for doing what is best for me. And guilt is one of those emotions that rarely comes with an off switch.
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.
Life is unpredictable at best, unforgivable at worst.
If you don’t have anyone to love or be loved by as a child, then how do you learn?
Trust can’t be borrowed; if you take it away, you can’t give it back.
Sometimes home is more of a memory than a place.
I care more about liking myself than being liked by others these days,
He’s had a difficult year—” “I’ve had several.
Few people are genuinely capable of forgiveness, and nobody ever really forgets.
I think when you feel abandoned by your own parents, it’s impossible not to spend the rest of your life suspecting people of plotting to leave you. It’s something I always feel anxious about with everyone,
A constant fear of abandonment makes it impossible to trust anyone,
atelophobia noun. The fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.
You and I had the kind of childhoods that are better forgotten, but seeds of ambition grow best in shallow soil.
insouciant adjective. Free from worry, concern or anxiety; carefree.
His lack of belief in me as a child led to a lifelong lack of belief in myself.
The car they caught her in was the car that killed your mother.
