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You have to stand up for some things in this world.

—Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Some folk want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy

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It was true. I wasn't good with liking someone. My instinct was total self-preservation: show no sign of weakness. This was my pathetic way of being shy.

—Jennifer Castle in The Beginning of After

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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

—Markus Zusak

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I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

—Anna Godbersen in The Luxe

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I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.

—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

—Stephen King in Joyland

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I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don't really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn't.

—Rachel Gibson in True Confessions

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To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

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I believe in fate, and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life.

—Ella Frank in Exquisite 

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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.

—Franklin P. Jones

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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

—Sam Levenson

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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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The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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