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Exciting Times QUOTES

Exciting Times QUOTES

1 " I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills. "

― Naoise Dolan, , Exciting Times

2 " I wanted people to know we were together, but only the ones who wouldn't hurt us for it. "

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3 " You keep describing yourself as this uniquely damaged person, when a lot of it is completely normal. I think you want to feel special - which is fair, who doesn’t - but you won’t allow yourself to feel special in a good way, so you tell yourself you’re especially bad "

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4 " I thought that if i let anyone in, they’d find out what was broken about me. And then not only would they know, i’d know too. "

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5 " The truth is, you like Julian because he enables this perception you have of yourself as a detached person. Plenty of people are willing to offer you intimacy. That terrifies you. You prefer feeling like no one will ever love you. "

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6 " The trouble with my body was that I had to carry it around with me. "

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7 " You broke up with the love of your life because you saw how much power they had to hurt you. "

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8 " you still put more time and energy into showing you don’t love me than anyone has ever put into showing me they do. "

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9 " I don’t think you’re interested in having a nice life. Which is arrogant, really, because you expect other people to help you maintain an existence that you yourself can’t work up any enthusiasm over. Don’t take this personally, by the way. I’m just observing. "

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10 " Women in movies taught men how to feel things. They took men who felt nothing and made them feel something. "

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11 " I have every respect for people who follow their passions, but I prefer stability. "

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12 " I’d been sad in Dublin, decided it was Dublin’s fault, and thought Hong Kong would help. "

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13 " he asked if I liked girls. I wanted to say: my chief sexual preference is that I don’t like you. "

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14 " he did not want to be my boyfriend. That hurt my ego. I wanted other people to care more about me than I did about them. "

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15 " For Brits, class was like humility: you only had it as long as you denied it. "

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16 " I wanted to explain that to Edith: that holding Julian's hand was like holding a museum pass, and holding hers was like holding a grenade. "

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17 " My desire was for Julian’s feelings to be stronger than mine. No one would sympathize with that. I wanted a power imbalance, and I wanted it to benefit me. "

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18 " Women took care of men and let them pretend we didn’t. "

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19 " When I met someone I liked, I wanted all of them, and fast. "

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20 " Sometimes i love you and sometimes i think it would be best if a plane flew into your office and you were on the plane or in the building "

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