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1 " There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it. "
― E.L. Konigsburg , A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
2 " ...loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason. "
3 " Tell how it is normal to be very comfortable on the outside but very uncomfortable on the inside. Tell how funny it all is. But tell a little something else, too. What can it hurt? Tell a little something else--about how you can be a nonconformist and about how you can be an outsider. And tell how you are entitled to a little privacy. But for goodness' sake, say all that very softly. "
4 " During her lifetime Eleanor of Aquitaine had not been a patient woman. While she had lived, she had learned to bide her time, but biding one's time is a very different thing from patience. "
5 " When the sun came through the [stained-glass] windows, I felt that I was standing inside of God's kaleidoscope. "