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“I can't love you again," Ben said, his heart aching on the words. "How can I, when I never stopped? I couldn't stop loving you when I hated you so much it made me sick to think about you. I used to dream about killing you and wake up crying because I thought you were dead. I can't not love you. I don't know how.”
― K.J. Charles, Jackdaw

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“You are who you are in life, and you either live that time trying to bend yourself to make other people happy, or… you don’t.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I loved him. I loved this man so much that losing him was going to break my cold, dead heart into so many pieces I was just going to have to stick them in the same box I kept my dreams and carry it around with me forever.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Challenges were only hard if you went into them expecting not to succeed.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“But my mom had told me once that regret was worse than fear.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Because I'm okay with you having ten other people be your favorite. But you're always going to be my favorite person.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Love to me was honesty. Being real. Knowing someone’s best and worst. Love was a push that said someone believed in you when you didn’t.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I’m not going to give up what I love just because I might not have it forever,”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I just kept on crying. For my dad. For my mom, For my siblings. For myself. For not feeling good enough. For not feeling enough. For doing what I wanted to do despite all the noes and the eye rolls and all the things I'd had to give up along the way. All the things I'd lost that I might someday regret more than I already did.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“When you want something bad enough, you can always make it happen.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“My mom said I had serious trust issues, but honestly, the more people I met, the more I didn’t want to meet more.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“What would I gain from telling you the first moment I realized you were meant to be mine? Nothing. You’re supposed to protect what you love, Sal. You taught me that. I didn’t wake up one day and know I didn’t want to live without your horrible temper. I saw so much of me in you at first, but you aren’t like me at all. You’re you, and I will go to my grave before I let anyone change any part of you. I know that without a doubt in my mind. This,” he pointed between us. “This is what matters.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“Eyes up here, Taco.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“You don’t get to live your dreams by waiting around for someone to hand them to you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“I had this one life, and if I didn’t make the best of it, then what was the point?”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“Kill them with kindness.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“I haven’t done a single thing in my life to deserve you, schnecke, but I will never give up on you, and I won’t let you give up on me.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“Someone told me I can’t take back what I’ve done, but what I do from now on is what matters. It seemed fitting.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“If I couldn't stand up for what I believed in, then I wasn't the person I strived to be.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“When you love something you do whatever you need to do to protect it,”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“Because with you, I’ve found me.- Ace”
― Ella Frank, Locked

“Dylan’s eyes narrowed. “You can’t just kiss me and make everything better, ya know.”

“Yes, I can. The expression is ‘kiss and make up’ for a reason. And considering you just called me your boyfriend, I’d say that’s well within my right.”
― Ella Frank, Aced

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
― Elyse Springer, Heels Over Head

“What do you want?” I swallow again. “I mean, as a prize. What do you want as a prize?"
(...)When Brandon speaks, his words are breaths against my cheek, and I can feel them where we touch, vibrations from his chest to my arm. “You,” he says. “If I compete and win, I want you as my prize.”
― Elyse Springer, Heels Over Head

“The only person you appear to hate here, Jeremy, is yourself.”
― Elyse Springer, Heels Over Head

“Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel’s chest like an ache. He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“It's like a banana farm for guns!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart