Sarah Dunn quotes
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“Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you’re in it, when you’re up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don’t exactly notice how bad things really are. It’s not always as apparent as it would seem. Unhappiness, when it involves another person, can be like that line from The Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt, how it happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.”
-- Sarah DunnSource : "Secrets To Happiness".
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“You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.”
-- Sarah DunnSource : Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.122, Hachette UK
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“She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.”
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“She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.”
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“It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.”
-- Sarah DunnSource : Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK
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“Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.”
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“Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.”
-- Sarah Dunn
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“It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone”
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“I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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