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“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
― Mitch Albom

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
― Bill Watterson

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
― Sarah Waters

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
― Debra Ginsberg