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“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”
― Elise Blackwell, Hunger

“Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman