“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
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“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
“I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.”
“Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.”
“You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.”