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“We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.”
― Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child

“You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.”

“Not ever?” I ask.

Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”
― James Russell Lowell

“I have to live if I want to be remembered.”
― Suzanne Young, A Need So Beautiful