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Ocupation: Author

Life: b. 1970

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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.

source: - Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.122, Hachette UK

Topics: People, Doe, Cooperation

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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.

Topics: Relationship, Book, Writing

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.

Topics: Falling In Love, Feelings, Gone, Phantom Limbs

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.

source: - Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

Topics: New York, Autumn, Blue, Fall Autumn, Autumn Days

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.

Topics: Mistake, Years, Perfection, People Make Mistakes

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.

Topics: Falling In Love, Compassion, Dating

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.

source: - "Secrets To Happiness".

Topics: Relationship, Two, People, Sun Also Rises

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