“When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.”

—  Irvine Welsh, book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Source: Ecstasy

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Scottish novelist 1958

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