J.S.B. Morse · 423 pages
Rating: (44 votes)
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.”
“It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.”
“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”
“You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.”
“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”
“If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.”
“Some people are like singularities. Get close enough and you will be uncontrollably consumed in an infinite attraction and will cease to exist apart from them.”
“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that doesn’t define you, your reaction to it does. Your environment doesn’t make you who you are, your choices — your beliefs, do.”
“Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.”
“Germs contagious, contagious alert!
But Edwart and Purell are stronger than dirt!”
“You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes.”
“Cas whistled. “You are a sight for sore eyes, Anna Banana.”
“A hunter knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.”
“All eves are created to be perfect but, over time, they seem to develop flaws. Comparing yourself to your sisters is a useful way of identifying these flaws, but you must then take the necessary steps to improve yourself. There is always room for Improvement.”
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