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It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.


Melissa de la Cruz

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Kellan...
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LUIS SUAREZ That's how it happen!
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KAREN QUAN How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?"

"It was love because it was worth it...
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CHARLES DE LEUSSE It hurt too much, ... There was no way I could play on.
CONCHITA MARTINEZ Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
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BOB HAYES What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.
KRISTEN HEITZMANN I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting ...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of produc...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Be careful with whom you share your secrets. Don’t forget your best friend has a best friend, and ...
VIKRANT PARSAI La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE I was more than obsessed. I was inside this guy's mind. There was so much material it would blow you...
JEFF FEUERZEIG Your life could be so much better, if you would only decide that it will.
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BETH CAMPBELL La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON Offer your most sincere prayers to the True Guru, so that He may unite you with your Best Friend.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much.
STEPHENIE MEYER What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.
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MARK TWAIN It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the ...
MARK TWAIN Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
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LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your me...
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BARBARA DELINSKY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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SADIE JONES It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee...
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NEIL GAIMAN If your best friend gets it, that's all that matters.
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LORETTA SWIT Remember, you are your own best friend, so you'd better take care of yourself first
SUPER GIRL When you hurt someone, it is like throwing stone in lake & once it hits water you don’t know how d...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you hurt someone, it is like throwing stone in lake & once it hits water you don’t know how d...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA [Meanwhile, newcomer Carpenter had to twist her body in several strange positions during the demonic...
JENNIFER CARPENTER It's difficult to focus on my studies when my best friend is struggling to get through the hour." JODI MEADOWS ¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It&#...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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