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“Someone should tell you that you're beautiful every time the sun comes up. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Wednesdays. And at teatime. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year's, and on the eighth of August, just because.”
― Anatomy: A Love Story
― Anatomy: A Love Story
“Fill my lungs up with the that sweet, sweet city smog and let me suffocate in a place with bodegas.”
― A Special Place for Women
― A Special Place for Women
“God, Shall I compare thee to an icebox pie? Couldn't be gayer if she tried.”
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
“Don't forget us," he replied, her blood staining the white linen covering his heart. "But live. Live and live, and we will do the same.”
― The Book of Living Secrets
― The Book of Living Secrets
“Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don't find very funny, do things they don't particularly want to, with people whose company they don't particularly enjoy. Not me. I had decided, years ago, that if the choice was between that or flying solo, then I'd fly solo. It was safer that way. Grief is the price we pay for love, so they say. The price is far too high.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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