Damaged Fantasy

"You’re terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you."

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Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You

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"You must never feel badly about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

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"I guess I’m trying to say, grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again."

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John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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"It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one."

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George Harrison

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can this be my car

"Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world."

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Walter Pater

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