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“Don’t invest in someone based on how much you like them, invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.”

Book:Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily

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Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily

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Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey, born in June 1987, is a television personality. He is known for his expertise in relationship and dating advice, frequently appearing on television shows and in the media. more

“We did not have a world that we shared; she gave me the space in her life that she wanted me to have. I had to be content with that. Wanting more, even wanting to know more, was presumption on my part. If we were particularly happy with each other and I asked her something because at that moment it felt as if everything was possible and allowed, then she sometimes ducked my questions, instead of refusing outright to answer them.”

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Book:The Reader

Source: The Reader

“It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.”

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Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“She had a great smile and gray eyes that were usually warm. Unless she was mad, that is. When she was mad, those gray eyes could turn as cold as a sleety day in November.”

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Book:Later

Source: Later

“Vinnie does not comment, but it occurs to her for the first time that for such an intelligent man Edwin is disgracefully plump and self-indulgent; that his pretense of dieting is ridiculous; and that his demand that his friends join in the charade is becoming tiresome.”

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Book:Foreign Affairs

Source: Foreign Affairs

“The air was better then.”

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Book:You'd Be Home Now

Source: You'd Be Home Now

“Innocently involved? No, he couldn’t call it innocent. Rather, it was mindless. It was neither; it was a paper chain of circumstance, cut from sympathy and too much imagination.”

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Book:The Expendable Man

Source: The Expendable Man

“Most travelers, like most men, were intrinsically decent. The end result for Iris would have been the same, cruelly the same. But he needn’t have been involved. He was the wrong man to have played Samaritan, and he’d known it, known it there on the road and in every irreversible moment since.”

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Book:The Expendable Man

Source: The Expendable Man

“I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.”

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Book:Семейное счастие

Source: Семейное счастие

“What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands." "Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly sensiblities. But I did not shy away from the word. How could I when it was the reality my sister lived with? " Because rape is about power; it is never about desire or love," he answered quietly. "His majesty is a powerhungry beast with a voracious hunger for more, and what better way to display that he reigns supreme than by taking what is precious to his own people?”

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Book:A Crane Among Wolves

Source: A Crane Among Wolves

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