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I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Shadows
Anymore
Shadow
Sun
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Walks
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Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.
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Cal ’s eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. “My God! She’s on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she’sdumb as a post ! You arenot having your baby in this house! You’re having it at the county hospital!
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You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.
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I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
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Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.
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ignore the pain, play through it.
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Why don't I just hand you my panties and be done with it.
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Make-up? What happened? You look almost female. Thanks. You look almost straight.
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Everybody’s afraid of something.
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Be the best at what you're good at
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Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard.
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There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?
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You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
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I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?
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I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband
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When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
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I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.
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I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.
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I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love takes that away. People like us… We can't tolerate vulnerability. But despite our best efforts, sooner or later love seems to catch up with us. And then…And then we fall apart.
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Who needs food? Your smile alone is enough to nourish me for weeks.
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