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Quotes About Acceptance

I think we love who we love and there's not a damn thing that can be done about it.
~ Susan Donovan
You can't do extraordinary things in the world if your spending time criticizing others because they don't look of behave the way you think they should
~ Susan Elizabeth Philips
I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love takes that away. People like us… We can't tolerate vulnerability. But despite our best efforts, sooner or later love seems to catch up with us. And then…And then we fall apart.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Do you really expect me to fall apart every time another woman throws herself at you? Because, if that's so, I'll be a nervous wreck before the honeymoon's over. Although, if they do it in front of me..." He went still. "Did you just propose to me?" She bristled. "Do you have a problem with that?" The scoreboard lit up, and he gave the world a high five. "God, I love you.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Esto no me gusta -susurró ella-, no me gusta nada. -Has caído en las manos del diablo cariño. Cuanto antes lo aceptes, mejor será para ti.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The first week of school they spotted him using a tortoise-shell cigarette holder. When he'd overheard some of the boys whispering that he looked like a queer he'd gazed down his long nose at them and said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas I've been sentenced to a life of mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope a few of you will be more fortunate.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Come on, Ted. I'm not exactly the type to be a rich man's bimbo." "That's true." A world of compassion softened his voice. "Bimbos are generally good-hearted women who are pleasant to be around." "Spoken from experience, I'm sure. By the way, you may be God Almighty on the golf course, but you're a lousy dancer. Let me lead.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sometimes we focus on other' flaws so we don't have to focus on our own.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Not to get all Zen on you, but maybe you should love yourself more.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You've been in my life for so long that I stopped thinking about you as someone who existed separately from me. You were just part of me. And then all these changes happened, and you decided to leave me, and I've been going crazy ever since.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Gli uomini straordinari erano per le donne straordinarie, e lei era irrimediabilmente ordinaria
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ancora una volta, non si era rivelata all'altezza. Non era risultata abbastanza sveglia, abbastanza carina o abbastanza speciale perchè un uomo potesse amarla
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
~ Yes, it seems everybody
Nunca sabía cuál sería la próxima ocurrencia de su esposa. Lo hacía sentirse como el niño que nunca había sido. ¿Qué haría cuando ella se fuera? Se negaba a pensar en ello. Lo superaría y punto, tal como había hecho con todo lo demás. La vida lo había convertido en un solitario, y era así como le gustaba vivir.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Supongo que no es fácil enfrentarse a tus propios defectos.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ya no te amo. —No importa, cariño. Yo tengo amor suficiente por los dos.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You are one gorgeous creature," he said. "Did any of those loser boyfriends ever tell you that?" Not in so many words. Not in any words, really. And it was nice to hear, even if it came from Theo.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sometimes the best part of loving somebody is loving them even though they've hurt you. Listen to me, Joel. Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You come from a long line of homely women, Gracie Snow. Accept the fact that you'll never be pretty and you'll be a lot happie
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips