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Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

—Sharon Creech in Absolutely Normal Chaos

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I never stopped loving you. Even when I was in love with someone else.

—Jessie Evans in Melt with You

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She'd barely survived him the first time. Playing emotional roulette with him now was dangerous. Even if it felt damn good to be in his arms again.

—Catherine Bybee in Not Quite Mine

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People come into your life for different reasons. Some are forever, but those are rare. Most people are seasonal—they're with you for a reason and when that reason is fulfilled, they move on.

—Erin Nicholas in She's the One

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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.

—Henry Ford

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Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

—Groucho Marx

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You may delay, but time will not.

—Benjamin Franklin

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

—Napoleon Hill

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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

—Edward Gibbon

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I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

—Henry Ossawa Tanner

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The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

—Joyce Maynard

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

—Washington Irving

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I think they'd be proud of the strong person you've become. I think they'd be proud that although you've been through more grief and loss than one person deserves, you're still finding reasons to smile.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It's about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love. The material things don't matter when your heart is full of joy and contentment.

—Lisa De Jong in Plastic Hearts

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But talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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