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The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

—Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon

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How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours.

—Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies

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I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison.

—Debbie Macomber in The Trouble with Angels

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How insulting is it to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

—Jessica Valenti in Why Have Kids?

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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

—W. E. B. Du Bois

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Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.

—Demetri Martin

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At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me.

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

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Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

—Maya Banks in No Place to Run

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

—Mark Twain

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Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.

—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country

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What's important is people. The people who love us, who need us, who make us feel emotion. That's what's important in life.

—Helen Hardt in Possession

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My old man used to say you could be dollar-poor but emotionally rich if you had one good friend.

—Fern Michaels in The Guest List

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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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