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What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

—Phyllis Diller

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

—Henry Fielding

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

—George Eliot

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I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

—Becca Fitzpatrick in Silence

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Sometimes you plodded through life with nothing changing from one month to the next no matter how much you yearned for a revolution to erupt beneath your feet. And sometimes your whole world imploded and rebuilt itself in a matter of seconds.

—Laura Kaye in Hard as It Gets

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Why do you think people cheat? Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

—Sarah Mlynowski in Ten Things We Did

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There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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Everything's going to be fine. Sooner or later you're going to find someone who knocks you right off your feet. Someone who makes you feel alive. Someone who kisses you and makes your knees weak. Relationships are complicated enough as it is. It's not worth settling for anything less.

—Lindsey Kelk in The Single Girl's To-Do List

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You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls

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You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

—Claudia Gray in Evernight

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If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you're seeking the wrong kind of people, for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?

—Donna Lynn Hope

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I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

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Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.

—Jason Myers in The Mission

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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

—Francis Bacon

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