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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory
the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

I loved you too much to lose you twice.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

I've come to learn two truths about love. One: The fall is the easy part. Two: It's best not to fall.

You're much too beautiful for tears.

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you're desperate for.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods ... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

Her smile is like a summer storm - something in between calm and dangerous.

Sometimes the hearts we steal are not the hearts we were ever meant to keep.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

I'll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

See, I'm in love with the person you can never outrun. I'm in love with you.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

Because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It's something you always have. You just have to believe you do.

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

The past isn't always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

Real love bleeds,

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date - one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

When you really love someone, you don't let them go - mostly, because you can't. Nature won't allow it. But also, because you just don't.

But no, Sir, to answer your question. I'm taken, and I have been since I was sixteen, Will confessed

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

Brooke was always my summer. She'll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect.

We get used to pretty ... eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle.

We have but one dance to a lifetime of songs.

I just want her to know that she's still beautiful, after all these years, and that I'm here - always,

He was always my moon, my stars, my world.

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Deep down, we're all some kind of crazy, Ada.

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

Don't count him out, Julia. He hasn't given up on you.

I'll find my way back to you, Brooke Sommerfield. As sure as the sun is gonna rise in the mornin', I'll find you, I whisper into the wind. - River

Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

I have to know if you believe in second chances - because I do, even if they do come with good-byes.

Say: If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back.

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.

Remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with ...

I'll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I've learned you don't so easily get it back.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.