"Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery."

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Source : Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.172, Hachette UK

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“Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don't want to go there. I don't see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.”
“The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.”
“The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.”
“If there is one thing I am, it's always right.”
“Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.”
“A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'”
“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”
“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”

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