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21 " Carpe fucking diem while you can. "
― Therese Anne Fowler , A Good Neighborhood
22 " Valerie understood that while her son did and always would hold her heart in his hands, the fact of being a parent was that her son’s heart was and must be reserved for someone else. "
23 " But I have found that not only am I more effective when I set aside the emotional aspects of a situation, I sleep better, too. "
24 " It’s trite to say appearances can be deceiving, so we won’t say that. We’ll say no one can be known by only what’s visible. We’ll say most of us hide what troubles and confuses us, displaying instead the facets we hope others will approve of, the parts we hope others will like. "
25 " Who was she to assert that in matters of his heart, she knew best? Valerie understood that while her son did and always would hold her heart in his hands, the fact of being a parent was that her son's heart was and must be reserved for someone else "
26 " Dostoyevsky said, What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Unable, meaning being denied, being thwarted. Those of us who’ve had love denied—real love, not a passing lusty whim, not a false infatuation based on some imagined connection that in most cases is unrequited—we fellow travelers through hell know Dostoyevsky told it true. "
27 " took our ribbing in the spirit with which it was given: affection, "