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Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

—Al Unser

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Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost pain.

—Amulya Malladi in A Breath of Fresh Air

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What do you say when you're not enough to make someone stay? What do you do when you meet the love of your life and realize it's all about timing? How do you accept that no matter how perfect you are for each other, circumstances get in the way? How do you compete with that kind of fate?

—Katie Kacvinsky in First Comes Love

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Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

—Gabrielle Zevin in All These Things I’ve Done

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Fate has a way of stepping in and guiding you in the direction you need to go even when you yourself had no intention of creating that path.

—Fisher Amelie in Thomas & January

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

—Socrates

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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life.

—Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism

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You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

—Jane Green in Bookends

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He looked up at me and grinned, and again, I felt this strange urge to smile back. And I was not someone who smiled a lot.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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You can be happy wrapped up in things that are bad for you. And things that are good for you can make you absolutely miserable.

—Katy Atlas in Moving In Reverse

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If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

—Unknown

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I bet the human brain is a kludge.

—Marvin Minsky

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

—Horace

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