“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
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Celeste Ng 17
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“A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”
Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”

Original: Non è mai troppo tardi per ricominciare, reinventarsi e realizzare un futuro come e con chi vuoi.
Source: prevale.net

“How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!”
Act II, scene ii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Variant: How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing