I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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