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There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve.

—Mia Sheridan in Becoming Calder

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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold in Diplomatic Immunity

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The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world.

—Tommy Wallach in We All Looked Up

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If you don't know what to do with the rest of your life, make your bed. If you're going to be a couch potato, at least fluff the pillows. If you can't afford pearls, red nail polish is your best accessory. If you don't have time to do your nails, smile and stand up straight.

—Helen Ellis in Southern Lady Code

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

—Ernest Hemingway

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We're told that men are strong and brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat, and bear physical and mental agony much better than men.

—Lisa See in Shanghai Girls

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You usually can't recall all the people you've shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you've shared your tears with.

—Mya Robarts in The V Girl

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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

—Art Hoppe

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In a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

—Madeline Miller in Circe

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Friends are where you find them, and sometimes you find them when you least suspect, in the oddest places at the strangest times.

—Mariah Stewart in The Long Way Home

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The past is done, and we can't change it. All we can do is try to be better. What really matters is who you are now.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

—Robert Bloch

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When I look at my friend's marriages, with their routine day-to-dayness, they actually seem far more romantic than any dating relationship might be. Dating seems romantic, but for the most part it's an extended audition. Marriage seems boring, but for the most part it's a state of comfort and acceptance. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long-term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. It's quietly romantic. He makes her tea. She goes to the doctor appointment with him. They listen to each other's daily trivia. They put up with each other's quirks. They're there for each other.

—Lori Gottlieb in Marry Him

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I miss parts of it. I don't miss the actual place. That's never as good as you remember it.

—Ashley Poston in Geekerella

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