“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― The Gift
― The Gift
“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
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“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― The Silver Pencil
― The Silver Pencil
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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