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• memorial
• thoughts
• memories

The worst part was that, as the years passed, these memories became, in the way you kept them in a secret box in your head, taking them out every so often to turn them over and over, something like dear possessions. They were the key to your unhappiness. They were the evidence that life wasn’t fair. If you weren’t a lucky child, you didn’t know you weren’t lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about. Jeffrey Eugenides

• dating
• home
• training

On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen. Alison Bechdel

• book
• space
• world

« All the Amazon guys around Seattle were also aware of the trend. They all knew that, someday, European haute couture would sell online. The problem was that feat couldn’t be done by anybody from Amazon. Because Amazon guys were hacker geeks and cheesy hicks. Amazon had been invented to sell sci-fi books. The least chic thing in the world. The European couture biz would never go anywhere near a dorky sci-fi geek like Jeff Bezos. As for Jeff himself, Jeff would much rather conquer outer space... Bruce Sterling

• colorful
• color
• had enough

She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly. 'We're going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a dove, and a white an green house filled with books and silver tea-sets.' 'And cookies?' 'Cookies? Oh, most decidedly cookies. We've had enough of bread and porridge. We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever... Sinclair Lewis

• life
• art
• people

The function of art is to make people like life more than they do. Kurt Vonnegut

• illness
• great
• help

Nor could she help feeling, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. Jane Austen

• work
• spiritual
• cancer

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us. Marianne Williamson

• reading
• suggestions
• liking

Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug William Gibson

• friends
• friend
• old friends

There's no friends like the old friends James Joyce

• love
• good
• love is like

...love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by. David Baldacci

• people
• others
• grow

Married people grow like each other. Graham Greene

• beautiful
• beauty
• she

She stood by the fireplace talking in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress. Virginia Woolf

• vision
• memories
• pain

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain Aeschylus

• hard
• love
• experience

You’ve got to get cold to get warm,” Phoebe said. Now that is the truth. That is so true about so many things. You learn it first with sheets and blankets: that the initial touch of the smooth sheets will send you shivering, but their warming works fast, and you must experience the discomfort to find the later contentment. It’s true with money and love, too. You’ve got to save to have something to spend. Think of how hard it is to ask out a person you like. In my case, Claire asked me to go... Nicholson Baker

• monday
• its friday
• giving

Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday. Stephen King