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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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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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