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There’s a cost for everything. You might have a beautiful baby girl, but you learn she’ll be disabled. You move heaven and earth to make that child happier, but you leave your husband and your other daughter miserable. There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.
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Love wasn’t about sacrifice, and it wasn’t about falling short of someone’s expectations. By definition, love made you better and good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives out worst behavior.
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I know what it’s like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it’s hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try and do that, it consumes you again.
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What people said they would do and what people actually did were two very different things.
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When you don’t have what you want, you have to want what you have.
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I told myself that if I didn’t care, this wouldn’t have hurt so much-surely that proved that I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn’t a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.
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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you; you’d be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you’re going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn’t be there. Either that, or you’d confide int hem and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.
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Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover; it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.
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I had been lying to myself, because it was easier than facing the truth: sex wasn’t love, and one single, stopgap Band-Aid of a night couldn’t fix a broken marriage.
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How can I miss him more when he’s two feet away from me than when he’s not around?
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A lot of kids will be put off by the fact that you don’t look the same way they do. And it’s totally cliched, but believe me, those are the kids you don’t want to be with anyways. You want someone who cares about who you are, not what you are. And even if you have to wait for that, it’s going to be worth it.
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We’ve all had a crystallizing moment, when suddenly everything begins to come together . . . whether we want it to or not.
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Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.
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I did not look like someone whose life was falling apart. I did not look like a girl who had to make herself vomit to feel like she could do something right. I did not look like the kind of daughter who was hated by my mother, ignored by my father. To be honest, I didn’t know who the hell I was anymore.
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Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn’t have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who’d let us go. We lived in our own grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we’d become accustomed to.
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Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
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You were so busy putting out the fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
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People who didn’t talk about their problems got to pretend they didn’t have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable.