#gilbert

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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You have no idea how strong my love is! ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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And always John, who is my own Gilbert Blythe, my real life Mr. Darcy, and the love of my life. ↗

— Lindsay Eland

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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers. ↗

— Barney Ross

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