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It's one thing to turn a friend into a lover, but it's completely different to try to turn a lover into a friend.


Ashleigh Brilliant

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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Life is not a problem - Life is the closest God has yet come to a solution
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy
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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Everything you lose gives you a little more space for something new.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT this is no time to be reasonable
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT There is a whole world which I alone rule, but it ends at my fingertips
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT All I want is a little more than I'll ever get
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT It's hard to face tomorrow, but it's easier than facing no tomorrow
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent
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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I could do without many things with no hardship - you are not one of them
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT But I can't function when I'm calm.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT As long as I have you, there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self-control
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to kill you.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
ASHLEIGH Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?
ASHLEIGH Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
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ASHLEIGH COLE That's cool. I didn't know that.
ASHLEIGH COLE Rivalry or no rivalry, I think we would have lost this game.
ASHLEIGH COLE I was worried we might go 12 innings. I knew eventually I'd start to tire.
ASHLEIGH COLE We'll fight till the end.
ASHLEIGH COLE I couldn't get one off in the first quarter. They were right on me. But I was eventually able to get...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON They're a good team. They're young but the growth they've made from last year is tremendous. Their c...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON We're not a trash-talking team. We just go out and play our game.
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ASHLEIGH BRAXTON It's great to play tough teams. But it would definitely be nice to have a win.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON Candice gave us an amazing spark.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON If we were settling, you wouldn't see people coming out of the locker room crying.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON I think the main thing is, in our hearts, we know we can hang with people. No one's satisfied. We ha...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON We're trying to reach our full potential.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON We walked in and immediately knew that was it.
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ASHLEIGH MOSS We're both buyers and managers, and if I'm not feeling it, she can do it.
ASHLEIGH MOSS I know I could count on my neighbors. I love it.
ASHLEIGH BALL It feels like a safe neighborhood.
ASHLEIGH BALL Parents are very open to the kids running around and playing and having a great time.
ASHLEIGH BALL Everyone seemed enthusiastic about the idea. What we want to do now is get volunteers to help spread...
ASHLEIGH ALEXANDER We'd want it to look nice, with a nice setting and available parking.
ASHLEIGH ALEXANDER I slipped out of the party with the only person I needed wanting me, ME!
ASHLEIGH SEXSMITH Never be ashamed of who you are, it is society that is a shame for not allowing us to just be.
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