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Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

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Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,You know it's always been that wayWe all came diggin...more

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Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

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A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we g...more

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Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through the dirt on Richie's cheeks.'Except maybe for lov...more

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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wild...more

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He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone how he felt (not that he had anyone to tell), that ...more

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...there are worse things than losing the girl.

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When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really h...more

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Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal wi...more

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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in yo...more

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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

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The fundamental difference between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do.