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- Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.
- Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
- The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author!
- Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
- The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
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