Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his.

— Mandy Hale

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

— Mandy Hale

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Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.

— Mandy Hale

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I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.

— Henry de Montherlant

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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

— Gillian Flynn

Learn well and play well.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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