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“The world was too ridiculous for me to remain too sad for too long.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.”
― John B. Hayes, Sub-merge

“That’s what Papa counting on, no doubt. But romantic love is . . .I don’t wish to say that romantic love itself is a fraud—I’m sure the feelings it inspires are genuine enough, however temporary. But the way it’s held up as this pristine, everlasting joy every woman ought to strive for—when in fact love is more like beef brought over from Argentina on refrigerated ships: It might stay fresh for a while under carefully controlled conditions, but sooner or later it’s qualities will begin to degrade. Love is by and large a perishable good and it is lamentable that young people are asked to make irrevocable, till-death-do-we-part decisions in the midst of a short-lived euphoria.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women