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Twilight is absolutely fantastic. The first word up to the last keeps your imagination open. New Moon was okay, I started to hate Bella as she's so overly dramatic and self-centered. Breaking Dawn was almost as good as Twilight. Eclipse was the final
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“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
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“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho
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...."whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. ...more
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