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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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You live on from year's end to year's end, surrounded by those whom you love, and chatting together; but it is rare to be thrown alone with any one individual and have [a] really intimate talk with him or her. . . . Unless some effort is made for it, or unless circumstances are unusually favorable, the very members of the same family live, one might say, on parallel lines, without ever touching.

—Charles Buxton

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Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

—M.E. Kerr

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So much time had gone by, but emotionally, it still felt like yesterday.

—Penelope Ward in Stepbrother Dearest

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When you want to learn, sometimes you have to take risks. Someone might laugh at you; your feelings might get hurt. But then you'll feel good because you were brave enough to try.

—Rachael Wade in Preservation

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It was one of those awful moments where you have no control over your reaction, when the pain is too exposed to hide.

—Jessica Knoll in Luckiest Girl Alive

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Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.

—Abbi Glines in Fallen Too Far

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

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This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

—Donald Cargill

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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

—Peter Benchley

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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

—Douglas William Jerrold

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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

—Samuel Beckett

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You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought—put together all those random pieces from everyone whose ever known you, from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

—Deb Caletti in Stay

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I'll love you forever. Even when I shouldn't.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in A Kiss of Shadows

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