“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”
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