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

“One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one’s own sanity.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again The Magic

“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

“He wasn’t certain how this woman had come to mean so much to him. It seemed that one day she was a stranger, and the next she was as indispensable as air. And yet it hadn’t happened in a blinding flash. It had been a slow, sneaky process, quietly coloring his emotions until he realized that without her, his life lacked all meaning.

-Benedict's thoughts about Sophie”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman