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• Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

  Paula McLain

  Tied

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.210, Ballantine Books

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• That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Simple, Made, Complicated Life

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

  Brian Cox

  Beautiful, Confused, Tricky

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• The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Storm, Tails

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)”, p.92, Random House

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• We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Motivation, Moving

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

  Che Guevara

  Heart, Looks, Matter

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• Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Self, Control Someone

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

  Barry Lyga

  Men, Taste Buds, Bud

  Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.

  John Green

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Scary, Balance, Life Is

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• It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

  Jojo Moyes

  Mean, Printing Money, Stills

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.281, Penguin

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• THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, World, Fascinating

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.59, Random House

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Principles, Life Is

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• One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

  Tony Kushner

  Optimism, Looks, Kind

  Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press

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• Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life." "Oh boy." My nose wrinkled. "Hello, Mr Comfortable. I'm Miss Complicated." His grin flashed. "Never a dull moment.

  Sylvia Day

  Past, Boys, Issues

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.260, Penguin

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• ...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

  Daniel Handler

  Hate, Giving, Missing

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Simple, Speaking My Mind, Keeping Secrets

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Dark Secrets 1: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Doors, Hands, Saws

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• NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Space, World, Good Work

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• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

  David Levithan

  Simple, True Things

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

  Nora Roberts

  Simple, Arms, Littles

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Perfect Hope: Number 3 in series”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

  David Nicholls

  Pride, Two Sides, Issues

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• They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes, Church

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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