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You can hear something over and over and over and over and over and still not really hear it. It does not click. No lo comprendo. Until you're ready to hear it. And then it is deafening.

—Jen Sincero in Don't Sleep With Your Drummer

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

—Victor Hugo

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Their relationship wouldn't be easy and the realities of a future with him were intimidating. Yet the strength of her attraction overcame her doubts.

—Debbie Macomber in Twenty Wishes

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I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand how my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine.

—B.A. Paris in Behind Closed Doors

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I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

—Gordon Brown

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I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.

—Paul Walker

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The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be.

—Shannon A. Thompson in November Snow

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Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

—Dave Pelzer in A Child Called "It"

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Was I wrong to feel like it was worth the pain later for some happiness now, no matter how temporary it may be?

—Mia Sheridan in Kyland

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Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

—Heather O'Neill in Lullabies for Little Criminals

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

—Claude Monet

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

—Carl Sandburg

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Bad things don't happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn't work that way. It's just… life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we're dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway… to have faith that there's a purpose to the journey we're on.

—Mia Sheridan in Archer's Voice

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Truthfully, there are only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are.

—Crystal Woods in Write Like No One is Reading 2

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I thought that love at first sight was something that was only in cheesy movies and romantic novels until that moment.

—Shannon A. Thompson in November Snow

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