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No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.

—Shannon L. Alder

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No one likes someone who's all weak and pitiful and needy.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key

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I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

—Ann Aguirre in Doubleblind

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I knew that there were no guarantees. Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them, on sunny Saturday mornings, and the consequences just had to be lived with, every day. But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.

—Morgan Matson in  Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

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The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to.

—Rebecca Wells in Little Altars Everywhere

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It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

—Jennifer Echols in Such a Rush

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If I were you, I'd be glad to be rid of him. Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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I'm as pure as the driven slush.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

—George Santayana

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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

—Brendan Behan

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

—Ronald Reagan

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

—Japanese proverb

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What happens when the future has come and gone?

—Robert Half

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