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- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I learned early that sometimes you have to dig through garbage to get anywhere.
- Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
- But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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