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    L.J. Smith
    “People die . . . so love them every day.
    Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
    Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
    And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Witchlight
    tags: night-world
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    Lorrie Moore
    “That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Lorrie Moore
    “This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Like Life
    tags: love, relationships, sarcasm
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    Lorrie Moore
    “Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”
    ― Lorrie Moore
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    Lorrie Moore
    “She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane. ”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Like Life
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    Lorrie Moore
    “Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
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    Lorrie Moore
    “I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
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    Lorrie Moore
    “It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
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    Lorrie Moore
    “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
    ― Lorrie Moore
    tags: novels, short-stories, writing
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    Lorrie Moore
    “Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had.

    Warren Lasher
    Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano
    Charles Deats or Keats
    Alfonse

    Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list.”
    ― Lorrie Moore
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    L.J. Smith
    “I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
    ― L.J. Smith
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    L.J. Smith
    “You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
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    L.J. Smith
    “Mary-Lynnette: "You have not read 'Pride and Prejudice'."
    Ash: "Why not?"
    Mary-Lynnette: "Because Jane Austen was a human."
    Ash: "How do you know?"
    Mary-Lynnette: "Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you're a chauvinist pig."
    Ash: "Yes, well, that I can't argue.”
    ― L. J. Smith
    tags: humor
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    L.J. Smith
    “Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?'
    She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Nightfall
    tags: clichés, damon, elena, fiction, paranormal, romance, vampire
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    L.J. Smith
    “Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Nightfall
    tags: damon, elena, fiction, paranormal, romance, vampire
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    L.J. Smith
    “It doesn't matter if you can't say it right now. I'll say it for both of us. And someday you'll learn.”
    ― Lisa Jane Smith, The Awakening
    tags: elena, stefan, vampire
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    L.J. Smith
    “Even if you kill her, she'll still be alive-here." He tapped his chest. "In me. I keep her here. She's part of me. So until you kill me, you can't really kill her. And you can't win. It's that simple.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 2
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    L.J. Smith
    “Feeling better?” he asked.
    “As warm as chicken-apple soup.”
    “I’m never going to hear the end of that, am I?”
    ― L.J. Smith, Nightfall
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    L.J. Smith
    “When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”
    ― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    “Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you
    right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.”
    ― Harvey MacKay
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    “Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.”
    ― Harvey Mackay
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