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“Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.”
― Karen Rose, Did You Miss Me?

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers