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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

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Sometimes the risk of what bad things could happen keeps us from experiencing all the good things life has to offer.

—Vi Keeland in Rebel Heir

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No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.

—Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon

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A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

—Mark Ardis

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The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

—Myles Munroe in Waiting and Dating

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This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory.

—Valerie Bowman in The Untamed Earl

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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

—James Thurber

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There is an emptiness inside of me—a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

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Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

—Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing

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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

—G. K. Chesterton

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I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day.

—Carsen Taite in Beyond Innocence

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Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

—Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun

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There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him.

—Mariana Zapata in Under Locke

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I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul.

—Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On

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Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.

—Linda Lael Miller in Creed's Honor

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