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"I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?"
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"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."

"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

"One of Coin's men lays a hand on my arm. Its not an aggressive move, really, but after the arena's I react defensively to any unfamiliar touch. I jerk my arm free and take off running down the halls. My mind does a quick inventory of my odd little hiding places and i wind up in the supply closet, curled up against a crate of chalk."

"To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left."

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

"I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness."

"A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat."
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"She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward."


"I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?"


"But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat."


"Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too."


"Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"


"It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible and he loves me anyway."


"To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)"
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