September 2012
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“And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own....”
– Robert Frost, “The Lesson for Today”
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“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
– John Muir
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“I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep...”
– Elizabeth Berg
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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“In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold...”
– Anais Nin
August 2012
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“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition...”
– Erich Fromm
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“Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything...”
– Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
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“When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic....”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener....”
– Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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“If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way...”
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
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“I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit...”
– Susanna Kaysen
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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion—
I...”
– John Keats
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“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot...”
– Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
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“I don’t want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
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“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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“You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That...”
– Darren Shan, Birth of a Killer
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“Heart, we will forget him,
You and I, tonight!
You must forget the warmth he...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it....”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
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“We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn’t...”
– Neil Strauss
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“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this...”
– Phillip K. Dick
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“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to...”
– Allie Condie, Matched
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“I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,
I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,...”
– Clive Barker, “Days of Magic, Nights of War”
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“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of...”
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I...”
– Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play...”
– Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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“It’s hard to remember the time before I loved you. It exists all in some kind of...”
– Chelsea Fagan, I Wish I Didn’t Love You
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“I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk...”
– Elizabeth Scott, Miracle
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“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
– Jane Austen, Emma
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“I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be...”
– Javan, Something to Someone
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“In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Quiet World”
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“We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or...”
– Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
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“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if...”
– Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis
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“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with...”
– Rick Warren
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“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars....”
– Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa
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“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
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“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In...”
– Nan Goldin
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“For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,...”
– Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
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“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will...”
– Charles Bukowski 