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“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
“Most of the time, we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad thing, being loved for what you can do.'
'But the other is better.'
'Better. I hate to say better, but it is. If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”
― Bel Canto
'But the other is better.'
'Better. I hate to say better, but it is. If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”
― Bel Canto
“You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
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