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“There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.”
“True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.”
“There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.”
“The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.”
“I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.”
“The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.”
“I briefly consider keying her precious BMW, but quite frankly, I don't have the energy to go all Carrie Underwood on her ass. I still have over an hour drive ahead of me. -Jackson 'Blame It on the ...”
“Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
“Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!”
“Bitterness is the cancer of bones.”
“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”
“I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from ...”
“He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stret...”
“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.”
“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”
“You wouldn’t believethe sun had ever shone on this heart.”
“It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let ...”
“It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”
“That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.”
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.”
