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"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:15 -0400

“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..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:32 -0400

“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..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:27 -0400

“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

"Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever?"

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:12 -0400

“Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever?”

- Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

"You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:00:20 -0400

“You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”

- Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

"Growing up wasn’t so bad, as long as you did it with the right person."

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:20 -0400

“Growing up wasn’t so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.”

- Monica Alexander, Searching for Neverland

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

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:05 -0400

“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."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:13 -0400

“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."

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:22 -0400

“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..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:30 -0400

“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..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:00:12 -0400

“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,..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:10 -0400

“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..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:00:07 -0400

“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..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:11 -0400

“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

"Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:00:30 -0400

“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t.”

- Dan Wells, Partials

"If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us…then there wouldn’t be so..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:20 -0400

“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us…then there wouldn’t be so much fuss about love in the first place.”

- Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

"I know absolutely nothing about where I’m going. I’m fine with that. I’m happy..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:00:23 -0400

“I know absolutely nothing about where I’m going. I’m fine with that. I’m happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn’t really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It’s all blank pages waiting to be written on. It’s all about going forward. It’s all about uncertainty and possibilities.”

- Gregory Galloway, As Simple as Snow

"When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things."

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:00:26 -0400

“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

- Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

"And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:00:26 -0400

“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don’t know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that’s the way it is with the best memories.”

- Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife

"I know—better than anyone—that once someone’s made up their mind to leave you, there’s nothing you..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:00:20 -0400

“I know—better than anyone—that once someone’s made up their mind to leave you, there’s nothing you can do to make them stay.”

- Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys