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Wanted Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that…
- She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to…
- I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then…
- ..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you…
- I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
- ... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of…
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