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"You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended."
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"But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck."
"Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back."
"Breaking up is like unsticking your fingers after you've Superglued them. Love's the glue and no matter how slow and carefully you separate, you're going to lose a little bit of yourself in the process. You're also going to retain a little DNA from the one you lost."
"Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it."
"Do you really want him to get over you?"
"You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended."
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