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When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.

—Tana French in The Likeness

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Some relationships just don't work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn't be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.

—Mandy Hale in but My Luggage Has

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Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

—Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

—Alfred Hitchcock

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

—Orson Welles

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Sometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Assumption

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Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Deity

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My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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You cannot step into the same river twice.

—Heraclitus

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He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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It's time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow.

—James Schuyler

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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

—William Faulkner

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And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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