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There are enough hours in a day to know that you are truly loved." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

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There are no guarantees with love,’ her father said, reading her mind. ‘You can’t hold some of it back, like a deposit, so you can get your money back if something goes wrong. You have to give yourself wholeheartedly, whatever the cost. ↗

— Christine Stovell

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He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for? ↗

— Guillaume Musso

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I like to pick things apart, analyse them and put them back in a better order than they had been in before ↗

— Jessica Thompson

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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! ↗

— Walter Scott

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Our first love is always our last. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that’s the way it goes, what’s the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood. ↗

— Chris Cleave

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Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

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