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“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“I see great things in baseball.”
― Walt Whitman

“Each couple is its own vaudeville act.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”
― Sharon Creech

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Even when you think you can't bear it, you can bear it.”
― Lauren Groff, Arcadia

“Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.”
― Lauren Groff, Arcadia

“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes

“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
― Gillian Anderson

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

“...she smiled - and time was created.”
― Dara Horn, The World to Come

“I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Evil communications corrupt good manners.”
― Charles Dickens, The Haunted House