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“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
― Shirley
― Shirley
“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Moon Tiger
― Moon Tiger
“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Every Thing on It
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Every Thing on It
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