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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else.

—Jojo Moyes in The Girl You Left Behind

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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Rescue

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Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

—Ruth Ozeki in A Tale for the Time Being

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It doesn't make sense to dwell on things you can't do anything about.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

—Kilgore Trout

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

—Dale Carnegie

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I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.

—Erin McCarthy in The Pregnancy Test

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Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

—Brodi Ashton in Everneath

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It had been about a month since he had dumped her, and she'd moved though her weepy stage to just kind of sad all the time, with occasional moments when I actually heard her laugh out loud, then stop, as if she'd forgotten she wasn't supposed to be happy.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

—H. L. Mencken

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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

—Laurence Sterne

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The man who has no imagination has no wings.

—Muhammad Ali

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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