Louise Doughty Quotes
Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

-Louise Doughty
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We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.

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You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool.

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Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.

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Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all.

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How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know?

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Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

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interesting things to say. I had just read the line, ‘It can

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