May 2012
56 posts
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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from...
– 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...
– Edith Wharton
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Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what’s hard,...
– 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,...
– Ann Aguirre, Aftermath
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What kind of a life am I supposed to have without you? You were the one good...
– Claudia Gray, Hourglass
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Don’t settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don’t...
– Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...
– Charles Bukowski
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He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn’t run away when...
– Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer
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People fall in love all the time. And it’s not always with the right...
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
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If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail. It takes back bone to lead the...
– Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
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There’s nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything...
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still.
– Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn
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Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.
– Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
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You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me. Meeting you has...
– Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
– Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
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The best revenge is living well without you.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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I want a new past, new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to...
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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I closed my eyes, thinking back to summer and cool pool water and long days with...
– Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
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I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it’s right, maybe he looks...
– Jane Green, Mr. Maybe
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This is the problem with getting attached to someone. When they leave, you just...
– Zombieland
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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they...
– Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
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The weirdest thing of all is that it feels so right. I suppose it’s true...
– Jane Green, Mr. Maybe
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Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and...
– Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust
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The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want...
– Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
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Sometimes I miss the old me.
– Ann Aguirre, Aftermath
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I wanted to be with him forever. I marveled at how such a monumental realization...
– Emily Giffin, Something Blue
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can...
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
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I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.
– Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind Of Girl
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It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life...
– The Alchemist
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You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but...
– Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo
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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
– A.A. Milne
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Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can...
– Jason Myers, The Mission
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I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something...
– Megan Hart, Broken
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What wonderful thing didn’t start out scary?
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than...
– Ann Aguirre, Aftermath
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Sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing.
– Jason Myers, Exit Here
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You aren’t just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my...
– Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
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Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.
– John C. Maxwell
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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for...
– Alice Munro
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering...
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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You’re in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who...
– Claudia Gray, Evernight
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It was funny how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute...
– Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me
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No, I don’t love him anymore. But I don’t want to give you this...
– Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
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You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be,...
– Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
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Love’s about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who...
– Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically...
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it....
– Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies