Val

“They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes,” she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. “But a truly smart person learns from other people’s mistakes.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“A sad statement of a man’s life, that the world should have been so improved by his absence.”
― Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

“Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring

“Ah, well … at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist