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Relationships always started with that heady, swoonish period, where the other person is like some new invention that suddenly solves all life's worst problems, like losing socks in the dryer or toasting bagels without burning the edges. At this phase, which usually lasts about six weeks max, the other person is perfect. But at six weeks and two days, the cracks begin to show; not real structural damage yet, but little things that niggle and nag. Like the way they always assume you'll pay for your own movie, just because you did once, or how they use the dashboard of their car as an imaginary keyboard at long stoplights. Once, you might have thought this was cute, or endearing. Now, it annoys you, but not enough to change anything. Come week eight, though, the strain is starting to show. This person is, in fact, human, and here's where most relationships splinter and die. Because either you can stick around and deal with these problems, or ease out gracefully, knowing that at some point in the not-too-distant future, there will emerge another perfect person, who will fix everything, at least for six weeks.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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I thought I wanted his love, but really I wanted his pity. I wanted to quit. But he wouldn't let me. "A good doctor can cure your illness, but only the greatest doctor can show you you were never sick," Roshi has said.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

—Prince Philip

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Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed" — because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

—Hubert H. Humphrey

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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

—Blaise Pascal

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Life can be full of dark times, and things that knock us off our feet, but there are good times, too, and gifts along the way. It would be wrong to turn our backs on a gift just because we've been knocked down once or twice, or because some of the people we love aren't here anymore.

—Jessie Evans in Melt with You

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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

—Meister Eckhart

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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

—Boethius

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

—Honoré de Balzac

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