My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

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