The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Amy Bloom
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  1. Love at first sight is easy to understand

  2. There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

  3. Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

  4. Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

  5. You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

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