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You're lucky your mother died,' she said. I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?' Between sobs she said, 'Your mother would have stayed if she could. My mother chose to leave me. She's still out there somewhere. I wish she had died instead.' I sat down next to her and put my arm around her. 'I'll never leave you.' She laid her head on my shoulder. 'I know. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

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Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wings against the pane in the boarded-up house. ↗

— Zoë Brigley (Thompson)

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Close your eyes," I whispered. "Let me love you. ↗

— Victoria S. Bloodstone

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Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Will not the Senorita trust me?" Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. "Yes," she said. "I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not?" "Yes, Senorita," he answered, greatly surprised, "I am Alessandro. ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#ramona #trust #love

I will love poeple as the people they are ↗

— Cheyenne hills

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Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet. ↗

— Jean Plaidy

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It was I who was conquered. In just seven nights, that fledgling goddess not only discovered that I had a heart, but she stole it forever, then cradled it in the palm of her hand. ↗

— Celeste Bradley

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Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen. ↗

— Sheila Kay Adams

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Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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