"Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it……" — Caroline Knapp
"Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?"
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56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
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When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
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