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"I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him."
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"Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation."
"Goodbye" is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say "no" to what always keeps you static!"
"My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete."
"God never ends anything on a negative, God always ends on a positive. Because what is negative about going home?"
"I wondered if that was what I was doing myself " caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up."
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"Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own."
"So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
"You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out."
"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."
"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."
"But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."
"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
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