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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.