If pain must come, may it come quickly…If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
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from By the River Piedra I Saw Down and Wept
In honor of today’s commentary on the waiting game we often play in dating, we bring you a fabulous quote from The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho. Chanel posted this a while back on Twitter and referred to it as “the best synopsis of a woman’s angst I have ever read.” We think it fits for the men too.
