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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders
... See moreIf one were to judge of love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it might very justly pass for hatred rather than kindness. To say that one never flirts is in itself a form of flirtation.
The School of Life Press • Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today (The School of Life Library)
“If you want a happy ending,” actor Orson Welles wrote, “that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” Author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “There are no second acts in American life,” but if you look around you’ll notice that not only are there second acts, there are third, fourth, and even fifth ones. (If you’re reading the obituaries ever
... See moreAustin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
He seemed kind and charming — his voice promised that he would take care of her, and that a little later he would open up whole new worlds for her, unroll an endless succession of magnificent possibilities.
F. Scott Fitzgerald • Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald UK
but just coming to the end of his triumph.
Jack Gilbert • Failing and Flying
It had been a hard night but she had the satisfaction of feeling that, whatever Dick’s previous record was, they now possessed a moral superiority over him for as long as he proved of any use.
F. Scott Fitzgerald • Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald UK
Just in case you ever foolishly forget… I’m never not thinking of you
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.