"She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years."

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Source : Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

Julia Quinn

#Unrequited Love Quotes #Years Quotes #Glimpse Quotes

“It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.”
“What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.”
“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.”
“My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”
“The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.”
“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”
“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”

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