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“If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“...the heart is an organ of fire.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you!”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
― Socrates

“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”
― John Locke, Lethal People

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
― Henry Ford