January 2012
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at...
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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December 2011
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day,...
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and...
– Nicholas Sparks
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick...
– J.D. Salinger
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More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than...
– James Frey
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What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing,...
– Charles Yu
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Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through...
– Paulo Coelho
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Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...
– Anne Lamott
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She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, “I sometimes think that...
– Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to...
– Colum McCann
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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get...
– Stephen King, Different Seasons
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There are two types of people in this world: those who prefer to be sad among...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste...
– Henry D. Thoreau
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true...
– Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...
– Douglas Coupland
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...
– Evelyn Waugh
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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish...
– Nora Ephron
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I’m finished as a human being,” she said. “All you’re looking at is the...
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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If you treat glass right, it doesn’t crack. If you know the properties, you can...
– Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
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You must write every single day of your life.You must lurk in libraries and...
– Ray Bradbury
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...
– Albert Einstein
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at...
– Helen Keller
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so...
– J.K. Rowling