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Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

—Jodi Picoult in Sing You Home

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Sometimes when you love someone, the best thing you can do is keep them in the dark. Loving someone doesn't always mean telling them everything. It means knowing when it's best to keep your mouth shut and when it's best to open it.

—J.S. Cooper in The Other Side of Love

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He slid his arms up around me, and as he kissed me back, I felt something inside me open, like a new life beginning. I didn't know yet what girl she'd be, or where this life would take her. But I'd keep my eyes open, and when the time came, I would know.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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The universe owes you nothing. It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is to do something worth remembrance.

—Amie Kaufman in Illuminae

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I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

—Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

—Voltaire

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce

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Who covets more is evermore a slave.

—Robert Herrick

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

—Gustave Flaubert

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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

—Ovid

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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

—Marcel Proust

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I realized that you were my biggest mistake. You will always be my biggest mistake. I trusted you. I should have known guys like you can't be trusted.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

—Yann Martel in Life of Pi

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Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter.

—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love

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