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“It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Art of Devotion

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― e.e. cummings

“Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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

“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

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding