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“Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“But I can’t go out with a guy who’s written eleven and half pages in three years. That kind of thing is contagious.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“I would want kids to talk and write about how the book makes them feel, what it reminded them of, if it changed their thoughts about anything. I’d have them keep a journal and have them freewrite after they read each assignment. What did this make you think about? That’s what I’d want to know. I think you could get some really original ideas that way, not the old regurgitated ones like man versus nature. Just shoot me if I ever assign anyone an essay about man versus nature. Questions like that are designed to pull you completely out of the story. Why would you want to pull kids out of the story? You want to push them further in, so they can feel everything the author tried so hard to create for them.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“All I want is to write fiction. I am a drain on the system, dragging around my debts and dreams.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
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― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it's a decision, it's a judgement, it's a promise.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The need for instant gratification is a component of greed.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions