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  • #1
    E.M. Forster
    “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

  • #2
    E.M. Forster
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    E.M. Forster

  • #3
    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

  • #4
    Peter S. Beagle
    “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #5
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #6
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Atticus Poetry
    “As he took her hand
    he gave her
    all she had been
    waiting for--
    a shiver
    down her spine.”
    Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

  • #9
    Atticus Poetry
    “And the stars blinked
    as they watched her carefully
    jealous of the way she shone.”
    Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild



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