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Fate had known all along we were soulmates. Now, I did, too.

—Ilsa Madden-Mills in Very Bad Things

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With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?

—Mitch Hedberg

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I could no more leave you than the earth could leave the sun. You'll always draw me back to you.

—Amy A. Bartol in Iniquity

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You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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And now, you can really start to get over him. If you think about it, this is probably the best thing that could have happened.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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Expressions like "the good ole days" implied that life used to be of a higher quality than it is now, but I think everything looks better in retrospect.

—Penelope Douglas in Rival

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One thing I truly knew—knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest—was how love gave someone the power to break you.

—Stephenie Meyer in New Moon

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A toast…to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.

—Tillie Cole in Sweet Hope

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

—Tom Stoppard

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

—Sophocles

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

—Mark Twain

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Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.

—Terry Pratchett

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