I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
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The memories they share will never change. STEVEN R. DIXON Say what you will about pro athletes holding out for more money. Most shouldn't do it, but you've go... ANTONIO GATES Maybe they will come and make us leave, ... But if they do, well, there's nothing you can do about i... LUIS DIAZ I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world throug... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're ... XAVIER DOLAN Actually, for me, I really love to do action movie. You know, most people, they know, they thought t... LI BINGBING The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath. BARBARA BROCCOLI I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Ye... BETTY FRIEDAN Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand.... JOHN BARNES Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our... ALICE MUNRO Try to be realistic and accept the people as they are, not how we would like them to be. Being resen... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Montreal showed a little more that they wanted me. That's why I think they got me here. If Pittsburg... ALEX KOVALEV We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other an... CHARLES BRONSON The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And... 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STEPHEN CHBOSKY In life, events change us. They define us. They leave scars to remind us of that time in our lives. ... EMILY R. FOSTER I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it th... DANIEL HANDLER Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people... NORMAN LEAR no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that... ELON MUSK I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee i... ADAM MCKAY I don't know if they like me or not. Maybe in about 20 years. But you can't ask for much more of an ... FRANK DENOGEAN In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smar... EUGENE LEVY I am telling you, they could beat some junior-college teams. But I could be more proud of these kids... DEREK KURNITSKY Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children... HENNING MANKELL Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discret... PETER HøEG Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. ... ANN BRASHARES I don't believe that India and China are about to leave Kyoto, but maybe the long-term hope is that ... COLIN BUTLER I guess if people label me a bust, they might have something to back that up since I haven't done th... CHRIS GBANDI I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they ca... CHARLES DICKENS This is who I am, Rachel . Accept it or not. The tattoos won’t wash off. The earrings will never c... KATIE MCGARRY Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to... LEYMAH GBOWEE And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no... BEATRICE WOOD I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so ful... ADONIRAM JUDSON Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of r... FRANK PORTMAN I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the... MARTIN GARRIX Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You cou... RAINI RODRIGUEZ I think there’s a point in everyone’s life where they realize that despite their best efforts, t... TESSA CLARE And we will share a drink. Yeah we will share our fears and they will know how I love them.They will... CONOR OBERST How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've con... BELL HOOKS I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never cha... KAREN CLODFELDER Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed ... MICHAEL FASSBENDER “People do not attract that which they want but that which they are. Change what you are to what y... CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI If I go outside, I will be prepared but you inside and outside will stuck again and again without a ... DEYTH BANGER Once they come in put these utilities in that will just be a sign that will allow other developers t... CHARLIE COX I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, an... MITCHELL BAKER I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted ... OSCAR WILDE I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather d... ROBERT BARNES Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c... C. JOYBELL C. I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more ... HOWARD GORDON The words I'm singing now
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You still choose a path knowing
you'll be KILLED a 100 times... PIYUSH JAIN I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good fo... PAUL DANO I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often tha... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge... JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a... JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ... JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?" We... JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't... JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ... 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JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT