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“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

“To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely
To you who sleep a lot because you are bored
To you who cry a lot because you are sad
I write this down.
Chew on your feelings that are cornered
Like you would chew on rice.
Anyway life is something that you need to digest.
- Chunyang Hee
("sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea)”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
To you who sleep a lot because you are bored
To you who cry a lot because you are sad
I write this down.
Chew on your feelings that are cornered
Like you would chew on rice.
Anyway life is something that you need to digest.
- Chunyang Hee
("sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea)”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

“A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

“She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

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