“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Source: The Garden of Eden
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“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Source: A Walk to Remember
“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”
Arthur C. Clarke book 2010: Odyssey Two
Source: 2010: Odyssey Two
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer
Source: Guide to Fiction Writing
“The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 157
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Poetry and Imagination <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience