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I missed everything about my old life. I just wanted it back.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?

—Heather Anastasiu in Glitch

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Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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Her sense of humor had drawn him in first. Then her sweetness. She had a kind heart, loved children, and felt music in her soul like he did. They could talk for hours without running out of anything to say—something he hadn't found with most other women.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd

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The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job.

—Sophie Kinsella in Remember Me?

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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

—Bob Edwards

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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

—Unknown

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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

—Edmund Burke

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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

—Malcolm Forbes

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

—Mark Twain

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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

—Chester Bowles

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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

—Laurence J. Peter

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

—Morihei Ueshiba

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