(At the request of LotteHamers)
Author of White Houses, Love Invents Us, Away and many more!

"You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful." 

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"The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you." 

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"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle." 

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"The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me." 

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"Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened." 

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"Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them."

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"I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness."

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"You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary." 

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"Some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn't get over a bee sting." 

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"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner."