My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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Jodi Picoult
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take. . You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person."" That's true. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>That's the truest thing you ever said."" All right. I...
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it’s hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent....
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John Gardner
In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself–your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.
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K.P. Yohannan
You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.
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Alexandra Bracken
More Quotes By La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those whom we admire.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
