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“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”
― Toni Morrison

“If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.”
― Joe Biden, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

“It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Sane is boring.”
― R. A. Salvatore

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”
― Stephen Fry

“Life doesn't just happen to you; you
receive everything in your life based on what you've given.”
― Rhonda Byrne

“You have to feel love to harness its power!”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Power

“The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.”
― Ly de Angeles

“First, resolve the assumptions”
― Michael A. Walker

“Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Steal

“I don't have you, and without you, it feels like what I do have doesn't matter.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Steal

“just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.”
― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

“I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.”
― Mindy Kaling

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West