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I'm not intolerant. I just know what it says in the Scriptures.

—Jesse Helms

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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

—George Santayana

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Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don't point out that people are different.

—Colin Quinn

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Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful boy walks into your life, sees something he doesn't like or doesn't understand, and painstakingly endeavors to make you feel how much he hates you, to be constantly aware of the flaws that provoke that hatred. And then you grow older and wiser, but you don't forget the cruelty. You can't forget it, because there is nothing stronger, nothing more palpable in the human brain than the memory of mistreatment.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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I still got that same little jump in my gut at the sight of him. Like over all those years he'd worn a groove in my heart so deep it would always be there.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive…it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

—Jennifer Weiner in Fly Away Home

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I thought maybe if I met someone else that I'd be able to stop thinking about you, but it didn't work. Nothing works. When I'm with them, I wish it was you. When they laugh or talk, I can't help but compare them to your voice or your laugh. It's always been you; it'll always be you.

—Kirsty Moseley in The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

—Pablo Neruda

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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

—J. Paul Getty

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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

—Sarah Bernhardt

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Nothing worth having is easy. The same goes for people. The ones who take cold, hard guts to get inside of are the most worthy of all. The ones you have to fight for.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.

—Karen Marie Moning in Shadowfever

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We are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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If you have the ability and the opportunity to help someone, but you don't do anything just because you're scared or it's inconvenient or something, then maybe you're just as bad as the people who caused the trouble in the first place.

—Bree Despain in The Lost Saint

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Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

—Donald Miller

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