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- There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
- John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The home of a clergyman is constantly judged by its parishioners. If it is too large and richly decorated, it is the subject of jealousy. If it is too small and humble, it is the subject of scorn. If it is too clean and orderly, it is considered a museum where charity is untouched and kept in a box. If it is slovenly, it is the subject of disgust.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- I do not want to want to be loved by strangers, but I do not want to want most of what I want.
- John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
- I love Warhol's work because it is surface-deep, because it is about how a repeated image -- whether it's Jackie Onassis or an electric chair -- loses its meaning in repetition...All of this is true, but saying it again and again, it begins to feel like a lie. It begins to feel like a betrayal.
- John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
- Will there be poetry in Heaven?...I think there will be something better,. Something that poetry reminds us of, and that is why we are drawn to love it. I think loving all earthly beauty is a way to lead us to love Heavenly beauty. So there will not be sunsets or poetry, but there will be something like them but even better.
- Jo Walton, Lent: A Novel of Many Returns, 2019
- I wonder if small things like this feel big to other people as well.
- Elyse Myers, That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, 2025
- Sometimes I wonder if I feel more emotional about inanimate objects than I do people.
- Elyse Myers, That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, 2025
- My face betrays my private thoughts so frequently that I’m used to others answering my silent questions.
- Elyse Myers, That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, 2025
- Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
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