This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I miss everything about you Can't believe that I still want you And after all the things w... COLBIE CAILLAT I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw so... WARD JENKINS and we laugh and laugh and all I know is at this moment I feel like I can do anything... KIRSTEN SMITH And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life Cause sooner or la... AMY PLUM If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall... ANNE HUTCHINSON I think it's unfortunate that what is essentially an unwritten rule ... is now being enforced as the... JOHN WALLACE The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill y... LAURELL K. HAMILTON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it... 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ELIZABETH WEIN I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye... ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear--who cares? ELIZABETH GILBERT I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo... ELIZABETH WEIN People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i... ELIZABETH GILBERT It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always... ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti... ELIZABETH GILBERT You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s... ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine. ELIZABETH GILBERT I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. ELIZABETH GILBERT I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t... ELIZABETH GILBERT Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One. ELIZABETH GILBERT Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan... ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ... ELIZABETH GILBERT One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex... ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i... ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m... ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON