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But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

One heart cannot serve two masters.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.