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What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

—Spencer Johnson in Who Moved My Cheese?

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We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in We Should All Be Feminists

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

—John Adams

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Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.

—Jodi Picoult in A Spark of Light

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I think online friends often know you the best.

—Jacquelyn Middleton in London Belongs to Me

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I did something brave. Or stupid. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

—Michelle Hodkin in The Evolution of Mara Dyer

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I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.

—Michelle Hodkin in The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

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Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.

—Jef Mallett

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The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything.

—Steven Wright

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

—James Thurber

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There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I don't understand how anyone does it—there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

—A. A. Milne

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Sometimes you wait for your dreams to come true, but sometimes the dream is just a fantasy, when in the real world there are things or people who could make you happier than any of your wildest dreams ever could.

—Holly Martin in One Hundred Proposals

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Romance isn't always about big gestures though. Sometimes it's the words the man finds or the effort that he has gone to. It doesn't have to be something expensive.

—Holly Martin in One Hundred Proposals

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