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“And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?”

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Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

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“The monute you get engaged, you become public property.”

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The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.

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“The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt…

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All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get…

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I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

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I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

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