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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

— Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock (1985)

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"If nothing happened, then there's nothing to remember," she told herself, trying to sound philosophical. "Of course there's nowhere to start."

Fire and Hemlock (1985)

You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.

The Homeward Bounders (1981)

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

Power of Three (1976)

"Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things."

Fire and Hemlock (1985)

People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end.

Drowned Ammet (1977)

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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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