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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

—Samuel Butler

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It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.

—Stephanie Perkins in Lola and the Boy Next Door

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I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with him. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future.

—Tammara Webber in Easy

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

—Pablo Picasso

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I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

—Abbi Glines in Breathe

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If you would've told me the day we met that you were going to break my heart—and that days, months, or even years would pass, that I would still be hurting like this—it wouldn't have stopped me from falling in love with you.

—Gail McHugh in Collide

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All this time and he could still make my heart jump, just like that first kiss in the fall of freshman year.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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Letting go of someone who owns your heart is hard. Sometimes holding on to that person is even harder.

—J. Sterling in The Perfect Game

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.

—William Shakespeare

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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

—Bill Vaughan

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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

—Edmund Wilson

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Fortune befriends the bold.

—Emily Dickinson

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There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

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He'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Guardian 

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