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“There’s an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can’t be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can’t add to it.”
― The Post-Office Girl
― The Post-Office Girl
“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
“Just as warm sunlight can, by passing through a lens, turn to fire, so too can love. It's wrong to see it as something that swoops in from the outside. It's because it arises from the feelings we carry inside us that it strikes with such violence, at the moment we least expect.”
― Kürk Mantolu Madonna
― Kürk Mantolu Madonna
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.”
― Happy All the Time
― Happy All the Time
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