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But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Betty Smith

I know that’s what people say– you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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Fall Happiness Love
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get.
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Coffee Rain Something Strong
I get a heavy penance for something I couldn’t help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I’ll never be anything else.
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Anything Else Penance Something
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
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Brooklyn Dream Happen Real
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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Bad People Person Unlucky
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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Cost Forgiveness Inspirational
Well, there’s a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Littles Men Wells
Of course, I didn’t ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I’m glad it turned out that I’m both these things.
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Ask Catholic God Things Turned
The world was hers for the reading.
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Book Inspirational Reading
Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains – a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone – just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.
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Book Cigarette Contentment Little Read Strong Things
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in.
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Beautiful Doors Library Past Place
If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Pain Someone Suffering
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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Inspirational Thanksgiving Time
Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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Mother Son Wife
Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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Persons Rich Suffering
A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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Children Want Forget never

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