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The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color―oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…

—Anna Godbersen in The Luxe

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She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers.

—Anna Godbersen in Envy

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You've seen those pictures of couples kissing in front of a Christmas tree, or clasping hands on their wedding day, or holding a newborn baby between them—a snapshot of joy. But what do you really know about them? Just that at the second the shutter clicked, they loved each other. You have no idea what trials and tribulations came before, or after. You don't know if one of them cheated, if they grew apart, if a divorce loomed on the horizon. You simply see that in one static moment, they were happy.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

—Ben Hecht

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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

—Samuel Beckett

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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

—Erich Segal

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Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

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He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With

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When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

—Tatiana de Rosnay in Sarah's Key

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Nature abhors annihilation.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

—Simone Weil

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Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do to get something better.

—Miranda Kenneally in Catching Jordan

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I'm just going to do my best and live under the assumption that if there are things in this life that we are supposed to do, if there are people in this world we are supposed to love, we'll find them.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life

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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

—Ronald Reagan

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

—James Thurber

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