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1 " I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends. "
― Armistead Maupin , 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus (Tales of the City, #1-3)
2 " Solitude was no reason for sloppiness "
3 " ..numbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning. "
4 " I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me.. "
5 " Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly "
6 " C’mon, let’s go join those tedious people. "
7 " The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you’re screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to—I don’t know—you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can’t hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it. "
8 " Don't listen when they scoffThat you are too old and I am young,For I am old enough to know betterAnd you are young enough not to care. "
9 " A little number?” “Fucked.” “Thank you. "
