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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“It seemed to Kya that when Chase played these melancholy tunes was when he most had a soul.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I don't know how to do life without grits.”
― delia owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A lesser male needs to shout to be noticed.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“We survive on sweet tea and complaining, plain and simple. Mostly the sweet tea, if I’m tellin’ it to you straight.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I loved you both with all of my damaged heart.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Secrets become lies, and lies end up destroying you and everyone you care about.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter in Paradise

“Hard things are hard.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter in Paradise

“Cash loves his brother, in theory. In practice, he can’t stand the guy.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter in Paradise

“Love is messy and complicated and unfair,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter in Paradise

“What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don't mean nothin'. We a family, carin' for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin' of family.”
― Kathleen Grissom, The Kitchen House

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“For the moment, it was only their souls, their bodies, and nothing else mattered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“what is made of love … that can never be destroyed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow

“Life is hard, we are all cursed, and nothing worth having ever comes easy unless it has a hefty price tag, one that usually costs you a pound of flesh and your soul.”
― L.A. Ferro, Salt

“you can't judge someone else's journey because it doesn't fit your script.”
― L.A. Ferro, Salt

“Life is what you make it; it's okay to color outside the lines. That's how we create our own beautiful masterpieces.”
― L.A. Ferro, Salt

“Years would come and go before I got to the bottom of all the heart-blessing, and it was not entirely about snakes.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Mercy by its nature is unjust.” Daindreth exhaled a long breath. “None of us is blameless. We’re all accomplices to some atrocity or another. It’s the way of the world.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Daindreth's Outlaw