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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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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.

—Rachel Khong in Vitamin

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The fact is, being married to your job for some portion or all of your life, even if it does in some way inhibit romantic prospects, is not necessarily a terrible fate, provided that you are lucky enough to enjoy your work, or the money you earn at it, or the respect it garners you, or the people you do it with.

—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies

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Love isn't found in words. It's found in quiet moments, a look, a sigh, a smile, a gladness. And very often, it's shown with sacrifice.

—Lorraine Heath in Just Wicked Enough

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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

—Mark Twain

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

—Douglas Adams

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