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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

—Samuel Butler

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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

—Madame de Stael

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The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

—Karen Kingsbury in Even Now

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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

—Cecelia Ahern in  P.S. I Love You

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Love can make us do dreadful things.

—Ann Aguirre in Doubleblind

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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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This is your life – not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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It was too hard to fall in love with someone, learn all of their quirks and passions, assume you'd spend the rest of your life with them, and then suddenly have them snatched away forever.

—Caren Lissner in Starting from Square Two

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Believe me, I'd go back to the way things were in a minute if I could. But it's just not an option.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key

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The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

—Heather Brewer in Eighth Grade Bites

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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

—Robert Anton Wilson

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

—Heywood Broun

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

—Voltaire

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What's another word for Thesaurus?

—Steven Wright

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I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

—Herbert Rappaport

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