“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t...”
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“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t...”
“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, bu...”
“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”
“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”
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“A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”
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“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountianto...”
“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”
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“It's a tragic fact to die in an accident”
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“Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.”
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“There's a difference between being alive and living.”
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.”
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“It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is an...”
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“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
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“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
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“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”
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“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shoul...”
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“A place is not really a place without a bookstore.”
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“I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tel...”
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“I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody...”
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