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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

—Philip Pullman in Clockwork

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

—William Shakespeare

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

—Albert Einstein

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

—Jonathan Swift

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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

—Joyce Brothers

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I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Interrupted

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When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be.

—Rachel Gibson in Tangled Up In You

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Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.

—Jaci Burton in Changing the Game

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I've never trusted anyone all the time. It's the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.

—Jay Crownover in Rule

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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

—Fred Hoyle

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We are all psychic to a degree. How many times do you walk into a room and just know there's tension in there? How many times have you thought about an old friend, and then she calls? Or had a dream about your grandma and you wake up and find the lost earring you inherited from her? It's like making a psychic telephone call: you send energy into the universe, and it comes back to you.

—Jodi Picoult in Where There's Smoke

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It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

—Cecily von Ziegesar in Reckless

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I barely know the guy, yet somehow I can feel that familiar clench of a fist gripping at my heart.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.

—Cora Carmack in Losing It

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