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1 " Perhaps love and hope are one and the same. "
― , Kissed: Once Upon A Time Omnibus Belle/Sunlight and Shadow/Winter's Child
2 " But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said. "
3 " Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it. "
4 " Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see. "
5 " The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase. "
6 " A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places. "
7 " A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong. "
8 " I love you, Papa," I said. "And I love you," my father replied. "I have loved you every day of your life. I will love you for every day of mine and more. My love will never diminish, no matter how many steps you take throughout the world, no matter how many years you wander until your task is done. "
9 " First impressions can be tricky things, for they can be both shallow and lasting, all at once. "
10 " And, much more than hate, it is pity which is the opposite, the doom, of love. For to love or hate truly, you need to be equals, or at least close in strength. But pity is a thing which flows from the strong to the weak. "
