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It's not the things you do with love and good intentions that you end up regretting. It's the things you don't do that you have to live with.

—Mia Sheridan in Most of All You

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It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

—Stieg Larsson in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

—Emo Phillips

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Leaning against him, feeling the warmth radiate off him, listening to his breath go in and out, she knew she was exactly where she belonged.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

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I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

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Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone.

—Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

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There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve.

—Mia Sheridan in Becoming Calder

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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold in Diplomatic Immunity

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The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world.

—Tommy Wallach in We All Looked Up

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If you don't know what to do with the rest of your life, make your bed. If you're going to be a couch potato, at least fluff the pillows. If you can't afford pearls, red nail polish is your best accessory. If you don't have time to do your nails, smile and stand up straight.

—Helen Ellis in Southern Lady Code

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

—Ernest Hemingway

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We're told that men are strong and brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat, and bear physical and mental agony much better than men.

—Lisa See in Shanghai Girls

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You usually can't recall all the people you've shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you've shared your tears with.

—Mya Robarts in The V Girl

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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

—Art Hoppe

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