Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.

Cecelia Ahern The Gift
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The quote from Cecelia Ahern's book "The Gift" describes a mix of emotions—envy, coldness, and loneliness—that can lead to bitterness. These feelings are portrayed as the essential components for creating a metaphorical pie, symbolizing the negative outcomes of such emotions. The imagery suggests that holding onto bitterness can result in something less than appealing, reflecting the consequences of disregarding positive experiences and connections.

Ahern's choice of words evokes the complexity of...

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My God, how I hate all this - shops, things behind glass, a stupid face of the goods, and especially the ceremonial of the transaction, the exchange of sugary courtesies before and after! And these omitted eyelashes of a modest price ... The nobility of concessions ... The humanity of trade advertising ... all this is a bad imitation of good- is strangely sucking good

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One night between sunset and riverOn the old bridge we stood, you and I.Will you ever forget it, I queried,- That particular swift that went by?And you answered, so earnestly: Never!And what sobs made us suddenly shiver,What a cry life emitted in flight!Till we die, till tomorrow, for ever,You and I on the old bridge one night.

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Then, after all the excitement, I shall experience a certain satiation of suffering--perhaps on the mountain pass to a kind of happiness which it is too early for me to know {I know only that when I reach it, it will be with pen in hand}.

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Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much," a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there's another word for such people: thinkers.

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