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"You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried."
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"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."
"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
"How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind."
"Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time."
"A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond."
"Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite."
"Step by step a mountain is conquered."
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"Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature."
"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it."
"You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things."
"Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do."
"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."
"She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing."
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