"The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isnâ€™t the end of the story itâ€™s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it."

-- Lisa Kleypas

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“The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.”
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
“I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.”
“Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.”
“The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.”
“A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.”
“The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.”
“There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.”

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