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"I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try."

—Lisa Jewell, Vince and Joy

"It’s funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay."

—Harlan Coben, Shelter

"When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time."

—Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life

"Things like that sometimes get stored away, and there never seems to be a good time to dig them up again. It hurts a lot less to keep them buried."

—Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here

"You can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won’t have to be bored anymore."

—Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. I think that’s the strangest thing of all now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been."

—Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From

"Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more―to be richer, more beautiful, more well known―you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come."

—Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith

"Moving on is when you think about him and don’t punish yourself for it, when he begins to evoke more of a scientific response than an emotional one, like “This is a 6’0” blonde-haired person who exists,” and not “This is a person I wish I’d never met; this is a person who has made me less of one.” Moving on is not to destroy or to combust or to set ablaze, it is simply to move, to advance through space and time, to leave behind the familiar dull of heartbreak for the unknown, the new, the strange."

—Stephanie Georgopulos