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I've given lots of people chances, she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

— Sarah Dessen Someone Like You (1998)

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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

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You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

Someone Like You (1998)

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

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It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Dreamland (2000)

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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