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"Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests."

"You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."

"I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope."

"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

"There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."

"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."

"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
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