"You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need."

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Source : Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.158, Broadway Books

Jane Green

#Years Quotes #Giving Quotes #Together Quotes

“It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.”
“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.”
“You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.”
“If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.”
“I didn't apply to different schools. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do.”
“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.”
“We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.”

Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.226
“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.”

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