August 2011
60 posts
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“It’s just the way things are. And you can’t dwell on what might have...”
– Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
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“Suddenly I had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that I was never going to...”
– Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer
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“You won’t do it at the right time. You’ll be late. You’ll be early. You’ll get...”
– Kate Moller
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“I think you’re the only person who gets me. When I’m with you, the...”
– Jodi Picoult, House Rules
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“Amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was...”
– Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside...”
– Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
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“I’ve always thought it was about finding the right person. But it’s...”
– Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
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“I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in...”
– Judy Blundell, Strings Attached
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“My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I...”
– Mila Kunis
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“And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned...”
– Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center
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“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something...”
– Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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“In the pool, on that last night of the last summer, we said we’d always come...”
– Jenny Han, It’s Not Summer Without You
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“You know that things aren’t going well for you when you can’t even tell people...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
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“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s...”
– Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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“There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not...”
– Charles de Lint, Jack the Giant-Killer
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“It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and...”
– Henry Rollins
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“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if...”
– Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
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“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren’t...”
– Augusten Burroughs, Dry
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“You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one...”
– Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
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“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don’t show them up...”
– Henry Rollins
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“I’ve always had this deep-down conviction that I’m not like...”
– Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
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“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to...”
– Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
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“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts,...”
– Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
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“When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your...”
– Ann Brashares
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“Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever...”
– Alexandra Potter
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“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem,...”
– Sophie Kinsella, Mini Shopaholic
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“Now that I know what it’s like to feel complete, it’s no good to be by...”
– Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale
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“Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many...”
– Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
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“I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I...”
– Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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“So what if he made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could...”
– Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center
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“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Sometimes it takes courage to leave.”
– Ann Rinaldi, The Staircase
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“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn’t.”
– Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
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“How can you make someone love you when they won’t? How long are you...”
– Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty
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“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of...”
– Jenny Han, It’s Not Summer Without You
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“We all long for what could have been.”
– Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
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“What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn’t...”
– Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
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“We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded...”
– Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
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“When I was with him, I didn’t have to be perfect, or even try for perfect. He...”
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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“I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.”
– Drew Barrymore
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“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but...”
– Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
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“The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of...”
– Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
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“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the...”
– Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
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“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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“Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can’t climb out of by yourself....”
– Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries
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“But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole...”
– Jenny Han, It’s Not Summer Without You 