Quotes Tagged "holding-back"

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.
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It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Tags: life-lessons, holding-back
We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that I could have all of him again, but I was always leaving and he was tired of watching me walk away. We both knew that I couldn’t stay and that he couldn’t come with me, but still, we couldn’t let go.
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