Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you don__ happen to like them all that much there__ nothing you can do about it _ unless you__e prepared to spend a lifetime arguing fate out of existence, which you could probably do if you tried but I__ not the type.__rust on Its Uppers, p. 87
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It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you don__ happen to like them all that much there__ nothing you can do about it _ unless you__e prepared to spend a lifetime arguing fate out of existence, which you could probably do if you tried but I__ not the type.__rust on Its Uppers, p. 87
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