August 2012
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“There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the...”
– Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over
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“When asked, ‘Why do you always wear black?’, he said, ‘I am...”
– Anton Chekhov
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“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable?...”
– Nora Roberts, Black Hills
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“No one ever stopped when they were winning.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“Every day we try to pretend that we don’t realize that moment, that it doesn’t...”
– Paulo Coelho, By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
July 2012
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“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
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“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have...”
– Jarod Kintz, This Is the Story My Great-Grandfather Told My Father, Who Then Told My Grandfather, Who Then Told Me
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“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
– William Faulkner, Mosquitoes: A Novel
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“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I...”
– John Green, Looking For Alaska
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“In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure...”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“Of everything I have seen,
it’s you I want to go on seeing:
Of everything I’ve...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they...”
– Lev Grossman
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“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
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“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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“I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who...”
– Rachel Cohn
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“We are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
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“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
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“It’s in the morning, for most of us. It’s that time, those few seconds when...”
– Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
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“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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“You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that...”
– Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become...”
– Ingrid Bergman
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“We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know...”
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
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“Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.”
– Yasmin Mogahed
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“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful,...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– G.K. Chesterson
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“When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and...”
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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“While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms....”
– Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
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“In the mirror of reality, of the unbeautiful world, it is hardly reassuring and...”
– Arthur Miller, Focus
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“I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
– Karl Lagerfield
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“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”
– Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha: A Novel
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes...”
– Henry Rollins
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“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Connection
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“Sometimes I wonder… will God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other?...”
– Charles Leavitt, Blood Diamond (2006)
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“‘Scared’ isn’t a good excuse! ‘Scared’ is the...”
– John Green, Looking For Alaska
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“I’m a lonely person. But that’s okay because I’ve gotten used to things like...”
– 有村 竜太朗 (Arimura Ryutaro)
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“I don’t know, sometimes I think I’ve got this hard kernel in my...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but...”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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“I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.”
– Primo Levi
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“All I’d ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had...”
– Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long,...”
– Elizabeth GIlbert, Eat, Pray, Love 