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“God is a faithful friend; He's always with us.”

Book:Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship

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“There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr. Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it in his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.”

Love Marriage

Book:Nicholas Nickleby

Source: Nicholas Nickleby

“I had often fantasized about a forced hiatus where I could catch up on the classics and while away the hours. But the dark secret about this fantasy is that you only end up on a forced hiatus if something bad is happening to you.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“If a man chooses cohabitation over marriage, his fears are bigger than his love for you; move on.”

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“We have wronged each other," answered he. “Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.”

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Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

“We're taught that we need to have romantic sparks. Attraction and all the tingly feelings, and those are nice, but marriage is so much more than tingly feelings. You need to like the person you're married to.”

Feelings Marriage Romantic Attraction Sparks

Book:Just a Cowboy's Best Friend

Source: Just a Cowboy's Best Friend

“This stratification of Judaism is confusing, so I'll explain it as it relates to bacon. In Judaism the major players are: Reformed eat bacon and love it; Conservative- eat bacon only in diners; Orthodox-never touch bacon but secretly wonder what it tastes like; Ultra Orthodox--no way, feh, it's treif, and Chassidic-what is this bacon of which you speak?”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“If you plant a garden with someone, you are basically saying to that person that you plan to be around to share the bounty.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I sympathized with elderly people who lived inside flesh and bones that couldn’t keep time with their soaring spirits. I knew now what it meant to be in pain every single moment of the day and how it could change someone’s entire personality.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I was disappointed in my doctor for not mentioning how psychologically strenuous bed rest would be. It’s a fact of life that people miscarry. But like bed rest itself, it doesn’t seem to hold a lot of weight out there in the world.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“The phone rang, and I scrambled to answer it, hoping that whoever was on the other end would be my salvation. It was a telemarketer. Here, I thought, was an excellent opportunity to make new friends.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

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