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"Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets."
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"Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes."

"Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother."

"A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend."

"Marriage is a long-lasting friendship."

"A true friend is the best possession."

"The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value."

"Every man is subconsciously promiscuous, but it is the conscious mind that keeps those primordial urges in check. A healthy brain creates a healthy mind, which keeps your relationship strong, safe and healthy."

"It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true."

"I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one."

"A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat."
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"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."

"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."

"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

"I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close."

"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."
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