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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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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

—Clare Boothe Luce

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That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life

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The secret to happiness…be satisfied and be grateful.

—Mitch Albom in Have a Little Faith

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I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.

—Stephen King in Joyland

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

—Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner

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Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

—Rebecca Maizel in Infinite Days

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I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.

—Yann Martel in Life of Pi

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