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“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Not to be dramatic, but I would rather drink battery acid than be in the throes of a crush.”
― Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

“But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“And I realize, in that moment, that a heart is a thing not so easily destroyed by the shadows.”
― Laurie Forest, The Shadow Wand