"'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'"

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Source : Mike Gayle (2002). “My Legendary Girlfriend”, p.69, Broadway Books

Mike Gayle

#Trying Quotes #Together Quotes #Tears Quotes

“I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'”
“The difference with me is that I did inhale.”
“Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.”
“In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.”
“I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.”
“Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.”

Source : Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.”
“If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.”

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