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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

—Saint Teresa of Avila

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I'd rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for.

—Katie Kacvinsky in First Comes Love

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Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize that you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

—James Thorpe

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Imagination creates reality.

—Richard Wagner

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

—Francis Bacon

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If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

—Estelle Getty

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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

—Ninon de L'Enclos

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Some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue—when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap—I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.

—Stephen King in Joyland

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I have never seen him smile like that—it's intoxicating, especially because I never thought he would smile like that at me.

—Amy A. Bartol in Inescapable

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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

—A.S.A. Harrison in The Silent Wife

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Nothing is said that has not been said before.

—Terence

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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

—Aaron McGruder

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Oregano is the spice of life.

—Henry J. Tillman

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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

—Warren Buffett

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