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"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."
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"She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pressure, but only just, as he was almost asleep by then. She remembered, but not very well, what it was to fall asleep holding the hand of another; how precious such an experience, how fortunate those to whom it was vouchsafed by the gods of Friendship, or of Love. She thought she had forgotten that, but now she remembered."

"Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ['PrAat-A -penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking']"

"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."

"Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you."

"When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if not impossible- to lose."

"Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men."

"This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going."

"Understanding may become "misunderstanding, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assumed, no specific objectives set, no definite expectations met and common values and interests no longer shared. Mutual understanding may then, against all odds, end up in heartache, confusion and bewilderment. ['Mutual understanding']"

"Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption - without the paperwork."

"Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases."
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"Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days."

"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."

"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."

"When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people."

"If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off."

"When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others."
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