Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)
“Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”
Source: My Fair Godmother
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Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime.
Aphorism 39
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur