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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

—Ernest Hemingway

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

—Lucille Ball

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Exit, pursued by a bear.

—William Shakespeare

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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That's what makes us human. Feeling things–even pain. That's what music does, if it's any good: it makes you feel things. You listen to a song, and somehow you know what that person was going through when he wrote it. Or maybe it puts a name to what you're feeling. And because you can share that, you don't feel so alone.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

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Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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I wouldn't cry today. I wouldn't cry over him again. Not ever.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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When I think of you and me and what we shared, I know it would be easy for others to dismiss our time together as simply a by-product of the days and nights we spent by the sea, a "fling" that, in the long run, would mean absolutely nothing. That's why I don't tell people about us. They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was…how real this is.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

—H. P. Lovecraft

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

—André Maurois

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It's not worth it to weigh what you could have done or should have done when there's no way of changing it.

—Alexandra Bracken in Never Fade

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Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire you to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.

—Colleen Hoover in Slammed

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Maybe sometimes you have to let go of people, and of all the things they do, and just hope that they'll find their way back to you if they're supposed to.

—Stefanie Gaither in Falls the Shadow

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Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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