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“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)

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“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

– George Eliot

“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”

– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

– Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

– E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly (Gadfly Saga, #1)

“There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”

– Jane Austen, Emma

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

– C. S. Lewis

“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

– Jane Austen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice