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Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

—Lillian Gordy Carter

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A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn't married, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick.

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in We Should All Be Feminists

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There are people we come across during our lives who, after they drift out of our worlds, drift out for good. Even if we see them again, it's a quick, meaningless hi and how are you? There are other people, though, with whom things pick up right where the relationship left off, whenever we run into them. The level of comfort—it feels like no time has passed.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

—Adrienne E. Gusoff

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But you were like a drug. When I was high on you, nothing else mattered.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

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It's interesting, isn't it? That you can find yourself feeling so awkward in unfamiliar surroundings that you become more self-aware and more self-conscious? Maybe that lack of connection to an unfamiliar place can actually give you freedom to open up and see yourself.

—Lauren Graham in Maybe

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There are lots of ways to love people and I know that you'll love someone else again. Even if it's not the same, some of it might be better.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

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How can this be the same day? How can all these people be going about their lives totally oblivious to what's been happening to mine? Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.

—Nicola Yoon in The Sun Is Also a Star

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There is something really, truly beautiful about having a place to call home.

—Kelly Rimmer in Me Without You

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I love this part of getting to know someone. How every new piece of information, every new expression, seems magical.

—Nicola Yoon in The Sun Is Also a Star

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How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I'm missing?

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

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Don't mistake softness for weakness. Only a strong man can be soft with a woman.

—Lisa Kleypas in Hello Stranger

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Ordinary days sometimes turn into extraordinary days when you least expect them to.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

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Some relationships feel like a wildfire—they're powerful and compelling and majestic and dangerous and have the capability to burn you before you even realize you've been consumed. Some relationships feel like a hearthfire—they're solid and stable and cozy and nourishing.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

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The thing about roads is sometimes you happen upon them again. Sometimes you get another chance to travel down the same path.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

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