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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

—Thomas Hardy

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When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure—but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

—Gretchen Rubin

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People were too busy living their lives to notice that mine had somehow came to a halt.

—Brittainy C. Cherry in Loving Mr. Daniels

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Sometimes opposites attract, and find out they're not as opposite as they thought.

—Allie Brennan in Tight Knit

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Everything true was too hard to write–he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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You either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you don't even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menu's without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something very expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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Nothing ever goes away.

—Barry Commoner

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It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.

—Tina Fey

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

—John Benfield

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A person's a person, no matter how small.

—Dr. Seuss

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

—Abraham Lincoln

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It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

—Katie Ashley in The Proposal 

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Even though I tried to stop feeling things for him, I just couldn't.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

—Quentin Crisp

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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

—Quintilian

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