Top 59 Marisa De Los Santos Quotes
#1. Linney moves in the world with such firm, certain steps, being with her can make you forget your own confusion, at least for a little while.
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#2. In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just hyave to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen.
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#3. We were friends. It was as big a deal as being in love." She tried to think of a way to make Amelie understand. "It was a revelation, being friends like that. God, it was holy to me. But it wasn't being in love.
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#4. When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.
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#5. Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.
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#6. What do you do when you're in love with the last man in the world you can have? You plan a life, a real life, without him.
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#7. Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she's be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure or this that they could say anything.
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#8. There were people who could live on their own and be happy, and then there were people like Pen and Margaret who needed the falling together, the daily work of giving and taking and talk and touch.
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#9. You know what I mean. That moment in a relationship in which, at the same time you discover you've been floating in air for 5 and 1/2 weeks you also discover that your feet have dropped a little closer to earth.
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#10. People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.
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#11. Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her.
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#13. The examples seemed to fall into two categories: girls who used sweetness and girls who used pluck.
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#14. But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying.
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#15. Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.
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#16. Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist ... Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved.
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#22. She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.
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#25. I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.
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#26. When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.
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#27. If you never share the worst thing you've ever done with a single person, if you just carry it all by yourself, maybe it comes between you and everyone you meet, even if it's years later.
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#28. I spoke, I listened, and my heart broke, which is to say that it didn't break at all but became suddenly aware of its own wholeness in such a way it hurt like hell.
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#29. I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you know exactly what you're getting into.
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#30. Yes, it's true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn't mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love.But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it's miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity.
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#31. Whatever word you use to describe diving into the deepest part of a human. Take your pick; they're all woefully inadequate, but they're also all we have.
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#32. But every time, what brought me to my senses was my conviction that before a person dropped a new life into this world, she should probably get a real one herself.
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#33. But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.
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#34. We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium.
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#35. Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands.
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#36. Soon, the two of them would leave this spot ... walk into the house and into a whole changed world ...
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#37. If you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world.
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#38. It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.
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#39. To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.
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#40. I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind.
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#41. My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.
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#42. A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.
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#43. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.
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#44. You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.
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#45. Sometimes, happiness feels so fragile ... So what do we do about it? ... Live. Forget that it's fragile. Live like it isn't
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#46. I stand here on this spring day in the center of my life. Chaos, din, and beauty. For a moment, I am still.
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#48. If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love.
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#49. She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.
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#50. I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen
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#51. In my family I have comrades-hearty and loyal-when what I need are intimates, and I've never figured out how to get us all to make the switch. I've never found a way in.
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#52. Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers.
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#55. There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.
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#56. That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.
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#57. Honestly, William, time?' his mother had snapped. 'Distance? Those things have nothing whatsoever to do with love. Who knows that better than you?
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#58. Since you left there's been a you-shaped space beside me, all the time. It never goes away.
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#59. Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.
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