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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, William S. Burroughs

05:15 pm, by eagerfeet-321 notes

I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

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I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.
Waiting For You, Susane Colasanti

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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

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No one actually needs another person or another person’s love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin

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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

10:36 am, by eagerfeet-148 notes

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.
The Dark Side of Nowhere, Neal Shusterman

12:22 am, by eagerfeet-313 notes

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need.
The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova

05:20 pm, by eagerfeet-52 notes

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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