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"Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you’re avoiding them."

—Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

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"I don’t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."

—Edith Wharton

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"Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what’s hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths."

—Walter Dean Myers, Scorpions

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"Change isn’t always for the best."

—Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

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"Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?"

—Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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"I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming."

—Ann Aguirre, Aftermath

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"What kind of a life am I supposed to have without you? You were the one good thing, the only good thing I ever found."

—Claudia Gray, Hourglass

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"Don’t settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don’t know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart’s desire has been right under your nose all the while."

—Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love