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“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It’s probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“It was a funny thing, forgiveness. You could spend years being angry with someone and then realize you no longer felt the same, that your usual mode of thinking had slipped away when you weren’t noticing.”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers

“Rich is paying every single bill on time without thinking about it. Rich is being able to have a holiday or get through Christmas without having to borrow against January or February. Actually, rich would be just not thinking about money all the bloody time.”
― Jojo Moyes, The One Plus One

“The kindness of strangers.”
― Jojo Moyes, The One Plus One

“I’m just saying people don’t always make the right choices in life. That doesn’t mean they have to be stuck with them.”
― Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher

“I dragged Tess and myself through hell and back, but here we are - After everything, we made it to our own version of heaven.”
― Anna Todd

“What I wanted, I found out, was to find me in the midst of all the things that make up me.”
― Adriana Locke, Tumble

“I’m a work in progress. Maybe I always will be. I’m not sure I’ll ever feel like a final draft, and I’m not sure I want to.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“Never let the fear get in the way of being the kind of man you want to be. When you look back, what will matter most?”
― Melanie Harlow, Ignite

“When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“It’s almost worse, knowing that kind of love exists, but worrying you’ll never find it. Like maybe if I hadn’t seen it in real life, I’d think it was only in fairy tales and I’d be willing to settle for less. But I’ve seen it. And that’s what I want.”
― Melanie Harlow, Taste

“William S. Burroughs once said that no one owns life, but anyone who can lift a frying pan can create death. He was right. Killing is the easy part. The act of living - of finding happiness in life - that’s the hard part.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“Perhaps what we desire can sometimes be so strong it overpowers our fate.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“But I don’t know if I can do this. I’m not strong enough. My eyes rise to meet his in the photo; they sear into my soul. What if he’s hanging on for me?”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“But I barely heard any of it, because for the first time, I was actually kissing the girl I’d been wanting to kiss since I was fifteen.”
― Melanie Harlow, Tease

“And I think of all the storms we weathered to land in this place. The broken dreams. The prayers we cast off into the sky. And I know now that endings bring forth new beginnings, and letting go means you’re alive.”
― Rochelle B. Weinstein, When We Let Go

“I don’t want you learning to be like me. But I don’t know how to teach you to be anyone different.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“Sometimes it’s the stuff you don’t plan for that brings you the most happiness.”
― Emma Robinson

“You get to decide how you show up in this world. No one else gets to dictate to you who you are.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Love certainly makes people crazy.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Wives

“Three dark sisters, all fair to be seen, two to devour, and one to be Queen.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was only mothers who did.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

“And, for the first time in almost thirty-five years, I cry for him”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

“I love this damaged, self-loathing asshole so much that I’m afraid it will crush me.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same - it's so perfect for the way I feel about him.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“To tell the truth, I don’t think that Hardin regretted what he did to her as much as he should have, but her forgiveness did chip away at some of the bricks he’s spent years building between himself and the rest of the world, and I know it gave him a little peace.”
― Anna Todd, After We Fell

“One of my greatest wishes in life would be for her to understand, to truly understand, that she is rare.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“He hopes that with these words, no matter how harsh some of them are, she will be proud of herself for dragging a sinner from the pits of hell and raising him in her heaven, allowing him redemption and freedom from the demons of his past.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“You are never ready. The legion curse drives people mad. More than one gift is too much for a mind to bear.”
― Kendare Blake, One Dark Throne