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“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.”
― Possession
― Possession
“The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’t stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the best of us manage to limp on into our sixties or seventies before we succumb. Me, I made it to about thirty-seven, and David made it to the same age, and my brother gave up the ghost even before that. And I’m not sure that there is a cure for regret. I suspect not.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
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Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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