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“Every single time I see the ocean, even if I've been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle--its power, its. blueness always just. as overwhelming. Like falling in love.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

“It's painfully beautiful,' I say.
'Just so we are clear,' he says, 'I will never love anyone the way I love you.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

“Be like Venus rising on a half shell, lips demurely closed, even her nakedness modest.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

“Carpe fucking diem while you can.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, A Good Neighborhood