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We fall back into silence. I look around XO Cafe and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

- Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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They talk about monotheism, and how it has led to so many slaughters. He wonders out loud why that single God is always so cruel.

"Because he wants love, man," she says. "and he can't get it. Look at all the commandments. They all say, Love me or die. What a weird message! God insists that you love him. He says, If you don't love me, I'll punish you with boils and plagues and locusts. I will burn you in Hell. His vanity is endless. Love me, he says, love me, love me, love me. He's supposed to be the most powerful dude in the universe, El Senor, the Father of us all, and he comes acorss as a huge pain in the ass."

She laughs when she says these things, which means she is serious.

    
- Pete Hamill, <i>Forever</i>

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We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

- Don Juan, Don Juan, Journey to Xtlan

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Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle