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"You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things."

—M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

—George R.R. Martin

"I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people."

—Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

"When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant."

—Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

"Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and again. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound."

—Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl

"I still felt sad, and a little incomplete. I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse."

—Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

"If I’d learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don’t always end up where you think you’re going."

—Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella

"He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?"

—Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl