"I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more."

-- Lindsey Kelk

#Heart Quotes #Long Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.”
“I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.”
“Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.”
“I have friends, and being with them is enough for me. I don't need to do something crazy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings â€“ those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page â€“ but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect â€“ it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.”
“No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.”
“If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.”

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