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#1

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: first-love, love

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#2

“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.
And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

tags: first-love

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#3

“My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.”
― Meredith Taylor, Churning Waters

tags: first-love, heartbreak, heartbroken, love, unrequited-love

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#4

“I don’t mind you pouring lemonade or whatever on us, but as soon as you hit a woman, I get mad. And that’s one show you don’t want the curtains to go up on.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: anger-quotes, dont-fuck-with-me, intimidating-yet-funny, intimidation-quotes, limits-of-tolerance, threatening, whatever

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#5

“Folks don’t give themselves enough credit. The mother who endures cavities so her children can get braces. The father who works a dead-end job so his kids can have a roof over their heads. The daughter who sacrifices college so she can take care of her disabled mother. They are all heroes, and don’t you believe otherwise.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: believe-me, impacting-lives, judge-not, look-up-to, nothing-is-free, service-to-humanity, serving-humanity, struggle-for-life, struggles-in-life, wonderful-people

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#6

“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale and, given future medical advances, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: age-is-just-a-number, be-what-you-want-to-be, better-days-ahead, life-stages, make-each-day-count, make-every-moment-count, no-turning-back, patience-and-timing, perception-of-life, seize-the-moment

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#7

“She was beautiful. Not despite her so-called flaws but because of them—those scrapes and life experiences that made her body like no other woman’s. The beauty that wasn’t ephemeral or society-dictated but the real beauty that cut across generations, across all cultures, from the beginning of humankind. The beauty that was painted in Paleolithic caves and carved in ancient Venus statuettes, those wonderful figurines of all shapes and sizes, individualized and gorgeous precisely because of that individuality. What cavemen had known, modern men had forgotten, and sadly, modern women too.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: bbw, beautiful-face, i-can-only-be-me, inclusive, its-okay-to-be-different, kind-soul, no-one-is-perfect, stay-beautiful, stay-the-way-you-are, you-are-unique

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#8

“This has been her life for the past fifty years, this striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right. This action was the only thing that sustained her during the hard times [when] only her purposeful life propped her up from total collapse, and she thought how strange that she had taught the morality play Everyman all those years but didn’t fully understand its central lesson or how true it was: We are our good deeds, and they alone will come with us into the afterlife.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: clear-conscience, continuous-struggle, faded, fading-away, life-is-a-test, lose-your-mind, obstacles-make-you-stronger, overcoming-depression, pick-yourself-up, storms-of-life-quotes

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#9

“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: love, time

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#10

“Why is love intensified by absence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#11

“I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: life

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#12

“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#13

“When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: married-life

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#14

“It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#15

“He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#16

“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: absence, dark-bird, life, present

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#17

“In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."

(Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)”
― T.C. Boyle

tags: belief, creative-process, self-confidence, self-trust, writing

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#18

“You will look bigger than you already are when you're confident that you can really do a very hard job! And this is the magic of self-trust!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, self-trust, self-trust-quotes

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#19

“Our personal evolution into the lives we dream of is dependent on our willingness to trust ourselves. To learn to trust our imagination and then use it effectively.”
― Michele Jennae

tags: consciousness, imagination, intuition, personal-evolution, self-trust

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#20

“Grace isn't just forgiveness, it is forgiveness fueled by surrender.”
― Amy E. Spiegel, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity

tags: grace-of-god

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#21

“God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".

R. Alan Woods [2012]”
― R. Alan Woods, Apologia: A Collection of Christian Essays

tags: grace, grace-of-god, r-alan-woods

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#22

“Only my goals keep me going by God's grace.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: goals, grace-of-god, motivation

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#23

“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: heartbreak, love

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#24

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#25

“I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#26

“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: childhood, mothers

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#27

“But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#28

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: sad

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#29

“I’m in love, aren’t I? She thought she knew the answer by how much she wanted to be there. Wouldn’t have traded being there for any other location in the world. Wouldn’t have traded it for all the exotic destinations flaunted in Pan Am travel brochures. Not Tahiti, not Monte Carlo, not Hong Kong. No, she wanted to be here, in this ramshackle market not a ten-minute drive from her humdrum house and life. Except it wasn’t a humdrum life anymore, was it? No, I’m at the most exciting place on Earth. The center of the world. The Roman Forum during the reign of Augustus Caesar.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: abundance-of-love, all-i-want-is-you, boyfriend-and-girlfriend, deep-in-my-heart, love-everything, loving-heart, manifesting-love, realization-of-love, steal-your-heart, sublime-love

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#30

“Except those images weren’t exact captures of reality. No, the Camera Eye was also suffused with what photographers called the Golden Hour—the gilt-tinted hour following sunrise and preceding sunset, when the world was awash with russet rays and even the meanest streets were aglow as if in an Arthurian legend. Every moment spent with John was like that, reality beyond reality. Richer, realer, rawer than reality. These were the moments she remembered most.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: cameras, golden-hour, grass-is-greener, happy-memories, memorable-moments, memories-of-love, morning-sun, sunrise-quotes, sunset-quotes

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