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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

—Stendhal

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I've hoped for this for so many years, waited for someone to come along whom you could finally love more than your family, someone who would turn you inside-out and toss you off your path.

—Bella Andre in From This Moment On

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When you work hard to get somewhere, it's quite nice to show people where you belong.

—Jojo Moyes in One Plus One

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Time would not change what I was feeling—or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.

—Tammara Webber in Easy

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I think some people are just inexplicably bonded. Drawn by forces beyond their own comprehension, they have no choice but to gravitate toward one another. Destined by fate to keep crossing paths until they finally get it right.

—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

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Being too scared to even try it—that's just a waste. I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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Sometimes fifteen minutes is all it takes for your entire life to change.

—Bella Andre in It Must Be Your Love

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They were at different places in the same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

—Jodi Picoult in The Tenth Circle

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

—Saki

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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

—Nancy Astor

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp

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