May 2013
42 posts
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Things like that sometimes get stored away, and there never seems to be a good...
– Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here
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You can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make...
– Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
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I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world....
– Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From
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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more―to...
– Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith
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Moving on is when you think about him and don’t punish yourself for it, when he...
– Stephanie Georgopulos
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Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish...
– Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
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You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your...
– Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story
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Growing up wasn’t so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.
– Monica Alexander, Searching for Neverland
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You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day....
– M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
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Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
– George R.R. Martin
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I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being...
– Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?
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When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think...
– Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
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I still felt sad, and a little incomplete. I suppose with so many things...
– Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
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If I’d learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you...
– Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella
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He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and...
– Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the...
– Dan Wells, Partials
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If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us…then there...
– Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
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I know absolutely nothing about where I’m going. I’m fine with that....
– Gregory Galloway, As Simple as Snow
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When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of...
– Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
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And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a...
– Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife
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I know—better than anyone—that once someone’s made up their mind to leave you,...
– Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys
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If you’re about to do something, and you want to know if it’s a bad...
– Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks.
– Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise
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It’s never been a perfect world. It’s never going to be. It’s...
– Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves
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I was waiting for you―for years. I didn’t live. I just waited for you to...
– Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist
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There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child—you grow...
– Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear...
– Lisa Jewell, Vince and Joy
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There was a time when receiving even the most insignificant message from you...
– Chelsea Fagan
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our...
– Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with...
– Henning Mankell, The White Lioness
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The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I...
– Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear
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That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and...
– Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
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The best way to get even is to forget.
– Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle
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As much as it sucks, you need to force yourself to remember your very worst...
– Greg Behrendt, It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken
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You think you know everything that’s happening around you. But you...
– Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping
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And he left. I watched him walk out—he didn’t say goodbye, he didn’t even look...
– Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
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What’s the point of living if you’re going to hate the world? Guard...
– Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
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That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love—that person keeps...
– Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
– Wayne Dyer
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Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion...
– Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar
April 2013
57 posts
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If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which...
– Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
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I know that’s what people say—you’ll get over it. I’d say it,...
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol...
– John Grogan, Marley and Me
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What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A...
– Courtney Cole, Every Last Kiss
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Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
– Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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I want to let go. I want to walk away from what we had and make every day a...
– Chelsea Fagan
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It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of...
– Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight