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"You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take."
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"Love is a two-way street, but not everyone deserves a license."

"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get."

"What you seek for others you find for yourself."

"When you focus on 'giving' the best in a relationship you are not dependent on others for your fulfillment!!!"

"I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies."

"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests."

"You never can give without receiving it."

"When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings."

"You will only have what you give away."

"What you give today you get tomorrow."
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"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."


"You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try."


"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."


"Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is."


"Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good."


"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."


"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."


"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
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