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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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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

—Joan Collins

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It doesn't make you a bad person to want to live your own life.

—Alexandra Bracken in The Darkest Minds

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Well, let's face it, you're not stupid. You knew there were a lot of things wrong in the relationship, you just chose to ignore them because there were so many good things you didn't want to give up. Now, you're at the point in your life where you're strong enough to give up the good stuff. You're strong enough to expect more from your life. I'm proud of you for that. Most women aren't that strong. They're so terrified of being alone that they stay with the wrong guy, rather than risk loneliness waiting for the right guy.

—Kim Gruenenfelder in A Total Waste of Makeup

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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

—Laurence J. Peter

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He was everything I'd ever wanted, and everything I hadn't even known I needed.

—Alice Clayton in The Redhead Revealed

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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love—it's relief.

—Karen Thompson Walker in The Age of Miracles

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