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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

—Stella Adler

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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

—Milton Berle

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They say love is blind but it's not. It's not blind, deaf, it's dumb. We still see and hear everything. We just don't ever say so. Love makes us forget who we are without the other person.

—Selena Kitt in Grace

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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Origin

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It really is true. It took this awful situation for us to realize it. We fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.

—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl

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To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

—Melody Carlson in Deep Green

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

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Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

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I gave him everything and it didn't work out. He didn't love me.

—Jaci Burton in Changing the Game

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I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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I knew you wouldn't let anything happen to me. I always felt safe when you were around.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Warrior Heir

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I didn't forget you. To this day, I have yet to walk through an airport without looking for your face, and every time it snows, I remember what it felt like to kiss you.

—Sharon Sala in Second Chances

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I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

—Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending

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