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"This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me."
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"There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish."

"I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better."

"Your mind is your world. Your heart is your nature. Your soul is your universe. Your life is your creation."

"Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results."

"I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace."

"I have enjoyed my company so fondly, I may not feel alone when I am lonely."

"When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. ['On a doggy day']"

"If you say something and reject any criticism, then your words truly meant to advise yourself."

"I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me."

"When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds."
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"And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way........His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man."

"Sebastian, Katarina said, turning to her nephew. "You've grown. "It happens, Sebastian quipped, flashing her his usual lopsided grin."Goodness, she said with smile, "you'll be a danger to the ladies soon.Harry very nearly rolled his eyes. Sebastian had already made conquests of nearly all the girls in the village near Hesslewhite. He must give off some sort of scent, because the females positively fell at his feet.It would have been appalling, except that the girls couldn't all dance with Sebastian. And Harry was more than happy to be the nearest man standing when the smoke cleared."

"And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you."

"This thing between them, this bond-it wasn't just passion,and it wasn't wicked.It was love, and it was divine."

"And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out."You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door."Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating."

"Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else."
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