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After all, everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.

— Alex Michaelides

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Possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them.

As far as I can see, love only brings sorrow.

She sometimes felt she had been cursed, as if by some malevolent goddess in a Greek myth, to lose everyone she ever loved.

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