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After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Just because it perished?


Edna St. Vincent Millay

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no said goodbye.

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There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away ...
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near the well.
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KATJA MILLAY I don't know how to say it - after all this time, I'm not even sure that I can - but I have to break...
KATJA MILLAY You know I meant it. I am human. And male. And not remotely blind. Do you want me to say it again? Y...
KATJA MILLAY Josh isn’t in love with me and I’m not in love with him.”
“Sell it to someone who’s b...
KATJA MILLAY And maybe I'm a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennet is kind of like being sav...
KATJA MILLAY What? Sunshine fits you. It's bright and warm and happy. Just. Like. You.
KATJA MILLAY Good morning, Sunshine.
KATJA MILLAY When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.
KATJA MILLAY The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it’s not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.
KATJA MILLAY When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, ...
KATJA MILLAY People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It's a fact. You can look it up on ...
KATJA MILLAY And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say any...
KATJA MILLAY Just so you know,” I inform him, “one day, I’m going to get tired of sharing your affection wi...
KATJA MILLAY Emilia," he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. "Every day you save me.
KATJA MILLAY We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain ea...
KATJA MILLAY Maybe one day you'll come back. Maybe you never will and that'll suck, but you can't keep doing this...
KATJA MILLAY I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifter...
KATJA MILLAY I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the kn...
KATJA MILLAY I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrug...
KATJA MILLAY But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.
KATJA MILLAY In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for ei...
EDNA O'BRIEN I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition b...
EDNA O'BRIEN I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is i...
EDNA O'BRIEN The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
EDNA O'BRIEN Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
EDNA O'BRIEN Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
EDNA O'BRIEN My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flo...
EDNA O'BRIEN Writing is like carrying a fetus.
EDNA O'BRIEN Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garmen...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to strugg...
EDNA FERBER Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
EDNA FERBER Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ...
EDNA FERBER A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity...
EDNA FERBER A closed mind is a dying mind.
EDNA FERBER It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then...
EDNA FERBER Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to...
EDNA FERBER Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
EDNA FERBER The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.
EDNA O'BRIEN Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered ...
EDNA FERBER Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
EDNA BUCHANAN In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until de...
EDNA FERBER Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It ...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourcef...
EDNA FERBER Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the ...
EDNA FERBER I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to se...
EDNA FERBER I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
EDNA O'BRIEN Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. L...
EDNA FERBER Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
EDNA FERBER In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
EDNA O'BRIEN If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with Ameri...
EDNA FERBER Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
EDNA FERBER True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
EDNA BUCHANAN Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
EDNA FERBER Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity...
EDNA FERBER America / rather, the United States / seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful...
EDNA FERBER I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotio...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle
EDNA FERBER When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...
EDNA O'BRIEN