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"I couldn’t love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn’t love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that’s all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you."

—Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

"I can deal with anything, as long as I know it’s the truth. It’s the lies that are hard."

—Jennifer Laurens, Penitence

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day."

—Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend’s Girl

"You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise."

—Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

—Swami Vivekananda

"I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term—no bad plans either, no plans at all—and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior—my life was open and ready and free—but that did not make it less lonely."

—Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

"Share too much and someone can hurt you."

—Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend’s Girl