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Curtis Sittenfeld

Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld is an American writer.

“If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.”

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“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

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“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”

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“Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.”

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“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

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“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”

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Source: Prep (2005), p. 325

“While I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”

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Source: Prep (2005), p. 321

“I believed then that if you had a good encounter with a person, it was best not to see them again for as long as possible.”

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Source: Prep (2005), p. 159 cited in: The New Yorker (2004). Vol. 80, Nr. 38-45. p.87

“Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.”

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Source: Prep (2005), p. 104

“As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.”

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Source: Prep (2005), p. 9

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