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“Life was too sweet to think about the sour.”
― L.A. Fiore, Our Unscripted Story

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. –Sam Keen”
― L.A. Fiore, Our Unscripted Story

“Life isn’t easy for anyone. We all have challenges. We all face adversity. It’s how we overcome it that makes us who we are.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“And in that moment, you realize how little control you have over your own destiny. From the time you’re born, you have no control; you can’t choose your parents, and, unless you’re suicidal, you can’t choose your death. The only thing you can do is choose the person you love, be kind to others, and make your brutally short stint on earth as pleasant as possible.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.’ ”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“You afraid?” he asked. I nodded. “So am I. But I’m all right with that. If I get hurt, I get hurt. It happens, right? Someone always gets hurt. But I don’t want to miss out on us because I was afraid.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Call me now it’s all right It’s just the end of the world You need a friend in the world ‘Cause you can’t hide So call and I’ll get right back If your intentions are pure I’m seeking a friend for the end of the world”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole

“I can’t lie I can’t tell you that I’m something I’m not No matter how I try I’ll never be able to give you something Something that I just haven’t got”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole

“Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

“I wanted to be enough to fill the universe inside of Jacob Grace. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn’t turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole

“Dawn makes a sound. If you listen closely, right as the sun starts to come up, you’ll hear it. It’s like the echo of birth: silence, followed by a gentle push, followed by moans, then the sloppy deluge of new life.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole

“memories are the patches that make up the quilt of our emotions. A beautiful way to put it, but wrong. If that were true, then memories would blanket us, they would keep us warm. My memories were chilling me to the bone.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole

“no matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole

“Teachers are amazing people and are found where you least expect them. Not just in school, but in life.”
― Rebecca Lombardo, It's Not Your Journey

“The past was done, and the future wasn’t created yet. All we had is now.”
― Emma Scott, A Five-Minute Life

“Nothing ever lasts, good or bad,” she said, her eyes alit with a thousand different colors. “That’s why we have to live as much as we can, as hard as we can, every moment.”
― Emma Scott, A Five-Minute Life

“trees shed their leaves not according to season, but according to rainfall. That before all of us there was something else. Eventually, something will take our place. I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“a girl raised by sirens. The sirens were guilt-ridden over murdering the girl’s mother, so they told the girl stories about her, made her as real as they could, but there was always a hollowness to the girl that they couldn’t fill. She was always wondering.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“don’t be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“If our past selves got a glimpse of us now, what would they make of us?”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” —Mary Oliver”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Moonshine,” he whispered. “You fill up the empty, dark space—like the moon owns the sky. It is quiet. It is bright. It doesn’t need to be a ball of flame to be noticed. It simply exists. It forever glows.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Make mistakes. Be free. Be bold. Treat teenage as a verb,”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“The heart doesn’t ask for permission to feel things. It simply feels.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“people dislike me because I fight mean. With no mercy. But what they don’t get is that terror and arousal are very similar. Same adrenaline. Same incentive. Same reaction.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“If you think you’ve found something good without anything bad in it, it just means you haven’t examined it close enough.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“What if tomorrow never comes?” I whispered. “Then, my darling boy, we’ll make the best of today.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Love is selfish. Love is raw. Love is unfair, and unpredictable, and unstoppable.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“You can’t make someone love you just because you want them to. It has to be freely given or it doesn’t mean anything.”
― S.J. West, Cursed