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“What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.

-Jeremy Malory-”
― Johanna lindsey, A Loving Scoundrel

“Don't make me have to chase after you again, because there's no way in hell you can get away from me, lady.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

“You better think real carefully before you say anything, cateyes, because if you give me your love, I’m not going to let you take it back. I can’t keep worrying about whether or not I can make you happy. I’ll try my best but there isn’t going to be any changing your mind later. Do you understand what I’m saying? If you’re going to be my woman, there’s no way in hell I’ll ever let you go.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“What is the key that unlocks me to be free to be who I want to be? Answer: There is no key. Just choose to be.”
― Truth Devour, Sated

“Nothing is ever as it seems but sometimes it leads to a better outcome than you could possibly have dreamed.”
― Truth Devour, Sated

“Life is about choices and chances. You make a choice and take a chance.”
― Truth Devour, Wantin

“A person who believes every word that is spoken or read has an inbuilt fool for an interpreter and leads a life mislead.”
― Truth Devour, Wantin

“Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for reasons associated to self.”
― Truth Devour, Wantin

“If there must be strings attached, let them visible and water soluble.”
― Truth Devour, Wantin

“Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.”
― Truth Devour, Wantin

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
― William Steig, Dominic

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton