"almost all novels are love stories."

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George Sand

#Stories Quotes #Love Story Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2010). “What Alice Forgot”, p.367, Penguin UK
“I am not a neoconservative.”
“Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.”

Source : J. Christopher Herold (1983). “The Horizon book of the age of Napoleon”, Harmony
“There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.”
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.200, Hachette UK
“I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.”
“In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?”
“I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.”

Source : "Mindful Music: The Creation of ‘Everything Changes’ With Julian Lennon". Interview with Ronald Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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