"Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces."

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Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “The Den of Shadows Quartet”, p.66, Delacorte Press

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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“as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.”

Source : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.24, The Floating Press
“Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.”
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
“It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.”

Source : Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.317, Wayne State University Press
“Ohio State created me. They created what they suspended.”
“Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.”
“When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.”
“One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.”

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