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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

—Albert Schweitzer

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I believe that people come into your life and then some go. I also think there’s a purpose as to why they were in your life at all. Each one takes a piece of you when they go. Some leave pieces of themselves with you. Sometimes it’s wisdom, or maybe, it’s a lesson.

—Shey Stahl in Waiting for You

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It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.

—Melina Marchetta in On the Jellicoe Road

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There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely.

—Alyson Noël in Night Star

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.

—Karina Halle in Sins & Needles

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Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Last Song

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Life is about experience. You can’t hold on to everything.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

—Cato the Elder

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I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory.

—Sam Savage in Firmin

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

—Sydney J. Harris

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You don’t ever really let go, though. You don’t stop. You don’t stop hurting, you don’t stop loving. It doesn’t go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it’s not consuming you every day. And then one day you know you’re okay. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And yeah, you forget the details. The way she smelled, the way her mouth tasted, how her skin felt, the sound of her voice. It’s almost like a different life, a different person that loved her, was with her. But on a day-to-day level, you know you’re okay. Sort of.

—Jasinda Wilder in Falling Into You

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It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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