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#1

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: abandonment, love, lullaby, song

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#2

“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: owen-armstrong

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#3

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: love

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#4

“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

tags: friendship, love

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#5

“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: love, relationship

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#6

“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: lies, truth

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#7

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

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#8

“Silence is so freaking loud”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: just-listen, loud, owen, sara-dessen, silence

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#9

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: enemies, explanations, friends

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#10

“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.”
― Virgil

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#11

“Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.”
Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?”
― Sarah Dessen

tags: lock-and-key, nate, ruby

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#12

“They do not love that do not show their love.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

tags: love

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#13

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: quotes

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#14

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#15

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”
― Sarah Dessen

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#16

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

tags: lock-and-key

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#17

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

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#19

“Foul whisperings are abroad”
― shakespeare

tags: top-8

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#20

“Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: top-8

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#21

“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

tags: cheating, fate, humor, misfortune, top-8, unfairness

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#22

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#23

“Friends may come and go
but enemies accumulate.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, In Too Deep

tags: enemies, friends

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#24

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#26

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#27

“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. ”
― Javan

tags: love-magic-illusions

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#28

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

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#29

“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
― Bill Wilson

tags: devotion, inspirational, love

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#30

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

tags: drama, romantic

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#31

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

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#32

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: friendship

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