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“If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“I asked Granny one time if she thought green might be God's favorite color since he'd made so many shades of it.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.”
― Norman Doidge, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun