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You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store. (Deb Caletti)
Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves. View quote
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You take care of the people you love, but it's true, too, that you take care of the things you own. View quote
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I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net. View quote
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Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time. View quote
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Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. View quote
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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes. View quote
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Because that's how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else. View quote
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If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? View quote
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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this. View quote
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear. (Deb Caletti)
What's that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most. View quote
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Beaches, music, and car rides-they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts. View quote
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You ... You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay. View quote
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I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for. View quote
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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't. View quote
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child. View quote
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Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss. View quote
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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them. View quote
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The hurt affects your ability to go forward. View quote
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You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it. (Deb Caletti)
This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy. View quote
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My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot. View quote
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Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not. View quote
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It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore. View quote
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