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"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"

"I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I'd made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in my head as they drove away, but writing the words out made it seem more real, possible. For them, and maybe for me.FOR YOU, I WISH FOR SECOND CHANCES.I folded it shut, then put it on the wall before I could change my mind, right above Jilly's. As Michael Salem called out to her and she started his way, I crossed the backyard, moving toward the music. When I looked back at the wish wall from a distance, it was a sea of squares: I couldn't even find mine among them. So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true."

"When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box."
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"There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation."

"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?"

"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."

"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself."
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