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“Whoa, I'm your girlfriend now?"
Archer shrugged. "We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound

“There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.”
― Walker Percy

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
― Jules Verne

“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Mobilis in Mobile”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

“Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.”
― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“I am the law, and I am the judge!”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“El enemigo es aquel que, desde el interior, destruye lo que merece la pena. Es el que te muestra la decrepitud contenida en cada realidad. Es aquel que saca a la luz tu bajeza y la de tus amigos. Es aquel que, en un día perfecto, encontrará una excelente razón para que te tortures. Es aquel que te hará sentir asco de ti mismo. Es aquel que, cuando entreveas el rostro celestial de una desconocida, te revelará la muerte contenida en tanta belleza.”
― Amélie Nothomb, Cosmétique de l'ennemi