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The girls were right in choosing to love Trip, because he was the only boy who could keep his mouth shut.

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides (1993)

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The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of Bombyx mori, no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. The legs of the larve have degenerated, and the adults do not fly.

A series of dissolves, their house, street, city, country, and finally planet, which not only dwarfs but obliterates them.

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“Obviously, Doctor… you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl."

The Virgin Suicides (1993)

Vince Fusilli held up his lighter… It was the best we could do for an eternal flame.

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We realized that our fathers, brothers and uncles had been lying, and that .no one was ever going to love us for our good grades.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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