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—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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—Isabel Allende, Violeta

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“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he’d always identified with poets.”

—Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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“[…] the charm of it is that nothing was said either by me or by her, yet we understood each other so well in that invisible conversation of eyes and intonations, that tonight she told me more clearly than ever that she loves me. And so sweetly, simply and, above all, trustfully!”

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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"Ever fleeting, always changing, shifting with the seasons: flowers weren't made to last."

Anne Potter, The Flower Fix: Modern Arrangements for a Daily Dose of Nature

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“Is it not strange that grief should quickly follow so divine a happiness? I drank of an enchanted cup but gall was at the bottom of its long drawn sweetness.”

Mary Shelley, Mathilda

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-“You cannot know the true nature of another’s suffering.”

-“No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.”

— Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

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“[…] my head is always full of something else.”

—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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—Isabel Allende, Violeta

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“Everywhere he looked, he saw her image, saw things that brought her back to life.”

—Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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“Life was then brilliant; I began to learn to hope and what brings a more bitter despair to the heart than hope destroyed?”

Mary Shelley, Mathilda

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“The heart of woman, like the diamond, has Light treasured in it…”

—O.O. M’Clean

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“Her heart was beating hard, and she could not fix her thoughts on anything.”

—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“One can get love by begging, by buying, by receiving it as a gift, by finding it in the street, but one cannot steal it.”

— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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"I felt as if I were recreated and had about me all the freshness and life of a new being: I was, as it were, transported since his arrival from a narrow spot of earth into a universe boundless to the imagination and the understanding."

Mary Shelley, Mathilda

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“People can also change the destiny of books.”

— Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

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“Your lips are like a freshly broken fig, [...].”

— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha