If You Must Know Quotes
If You Must Know
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“As a teacher, I’d seen good parents with troubled kids and troubled parents with wonderful kids.”
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“If we carelessly disregard other people, we should change. But if we’re merely being true to ourselves, we shouldn’t. How others respond to pain or fear is their choice.”
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― If You Must Know
“Pity. Life must be boring for those without any sense of humor.”
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― If You Must Know
“There ought to be a warning anytime you wake up on a day that will forever change your life.”
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― If You Must Know
“who can fault a guy who admires uniqueness?”
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― If You Must Know
“If we carelessly disregard other people, we should change. But if we’re merely being true to ourselves, we shouldn’t. How others respond to pain or fear is their choice. If Mom moves out of town and Eli lives a lonely life, that’s on them, not us.”
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“They loved me in their way even if they couldn’t love and accept me as I was. My dad had, though, and to honor his memory and wishes for our family, I couldn’t continue to drift out of their lives as I’d been doing.”
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― If You Must Know
“getting good at things requires commitment and learning how to come back harder if you fail the first time. Promise me you won’t quit things because you’re scared you’re not good enough.”
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― If You Must Know
“Jesus, the way we tortured ourselves over fates we didn’t control boggled the mind.”
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― If You Must Know
“I’d always suspected his relentless drive to prove himself sprang from his mom’s abandonment. No one would call Lyle easy to live with, but my heart ached whenever I thought of the cruelty he suffered in childhood. If healing that wound required me to tiptoe around his feelings or defer to his whims now and then, I would do so happily. He’d taken the leap of trust that I would not leave him like his mother had, so he deserved my devotion.”
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― If You Must Know
“When you pour everything you have into a belief, letting it go is like killing a part of yourself, even when you know it’s the only way to survive.”
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― If You Must Know
“It’s not easy to have people look at you differently and to know you’re the butt of their jokes.”
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― If You Must Know
“You’re angry with me. I get that. Sorry, not sorry,”
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― If You Must Know
“My dad found me charming, so I’ve never felt the need to fit in.”
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― If You Must Know
“When I looked up at Eli, he surprised me with a wide grin. “You’re odd. You know that, right?”
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― If You Must Know
“shot to the fists that I’d formed. “We need to take Ebba down. I mean, she’s a class-A bitch to sleep with a married man whose wife is pregnant.”
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― If You Must Know
“Like your provocateur way of life is working for you?”
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