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Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn't have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

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I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

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I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.

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No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

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Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

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You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

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Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

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In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

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What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

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It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life.... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

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Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don't usually like. Just do it, I always think.

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Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

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The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

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And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

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Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.

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It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

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I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong—and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

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This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.

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I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens," I say, realizing that just "seeing what happens" is my version of "going for it.

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She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

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It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

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He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

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I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

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The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

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Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

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Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...

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Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?

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But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.

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I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.

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