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Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

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Tori AmosTori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put ...

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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

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Valentine reposes within the walls of Paris, and to leave Paris is like losing her a second time.""M...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

What happened to Violet was terrible, and I’m not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate t...

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So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on sin...

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Anthony BurgessA Clockwork Orange

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's ...

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up...

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But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

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Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

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Dan BrownDeception Point

Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

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Dennis LehaneA Drink Before the War

You forget the life you had before, after awhile. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls o...

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I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about ...

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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchan...

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If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninterest...

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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I...

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To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu...

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A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and ...

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How do you do it?""Do what?""All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day....

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Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-A...

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The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, li...

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Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming a...

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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them ...

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Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever bloss...

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The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry a...

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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different wo...

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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, ...

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But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's he...

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How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you rea...

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It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint in...

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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and ...

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So she retreated into herself, rebuilt the damaged pathways of her mind, explored long-unvisited mem...

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Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly yo...

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Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevi...

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The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us ...

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His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and h...

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I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...

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Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest...

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She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f...

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Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would ...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wh...

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You're looking for a reason," she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag...

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There’s something so beautiful about people who are heartbroken; they think about how they’re feelin...

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