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“There’s nothing wrong with being committed to yourself. When you’re not focused on love, that’s when it sweeps you up.”
― A.E. Valdez, All I've Wanted All I've Needed

“The problem with comfort is that it makes it easier to slip into routines. It makes it easier for us to become stagnant. I don’t want to be stagnant, and that’s what I felt like with him. That I wasn’t growing and exploring. I want the chance to know myself outside of being in a relationship. I want to fall in love with myself.”
― A.E. Valdez, All I've Wanted All I've Needed

“People can tell you what you are all day, but you really have to believe it yourself for you to be able to embody it. I’m getting there.”
― A.E. Valdez, All I've Wanted All I've Needed

“It feels good to have someone to lean on that can support me when I feel like I can’t support myself.”
― A.E. Valdez, All I've Wanted All I've Needed

“There was no one before her. There will never be another after her. There is only her. Only us. All I’ve wanted. All I’ve needed.”
― A.E. Valdez, All I've Wanted All I've Needed

“We’re all deserving of happiness and of a love that’s so deep that you only discover the depths to which it goes with each passing day as your love grows.”
― A.E. Valdez, All I've Wanted All I've Needed

“We don’t always have to let our walls down completely. Sometimes all we need is a little light to shine through the cracks to make a difference.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“I watch her fall with me. In this moment, I realize she is the only person I would ever want to fall with. I know I came here because I didn’t want Lincoln, or any other guy, to have the chance to possibly know her in this way. The way that only I know her. I want this moment, and any others with her, to be only for me. With me.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“In these moments, everything else fades away. All I see is her. All I feel is her. When I fall into the softness of her my soul and sorrows are wrapped in peace.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“Live and soak up every single moment. Lean into them, even the moments that terrify you. That’s how you know you’re alive.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“She offers me a smile, “is she someone you see a future with?” “She’s who I see everything with. She is everything. My everything.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“Both of my parents were living with burdens that were never theirs to carry.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“Sometimes the only way to the light is through the darkness. But there will be little beacons of light along the way that will help see you through. There is a duality of dark and light. Remember, we can’t shine without the dark.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“Quinn and I, we collided with fate. Fell, crashed, and fucking burned. But we fell together, crashed together, and we fucking burned together. Nothing is perfect. But me and her, us–we’re perfect for each other. When our son asks me if I believe in fate, I’m going to tell him the story of us… of how we came to be. How we collided with fate.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“it isn’t what we left behind that breaks me it’s what we could’ve built had we stayed”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“love does not look like a person love is our actions love is giving all we can even if it’s just the bigger slice of cake love is understanding we have the power to hurt one another but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t love is figuring out all the kind sweetness we deserve and when someone shows up saying they will provide it as you do but their actions seem to break you
rather than build you love is knowing whom to choose”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“you cannot walk in and out of me like a revolving door i have too many miracles happening inside me to be your convenient option - not your hobby”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“if i’m not the love of your life i’ll be the greatest loss instead”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“you ask if we can still be friends i explain how a honeybee does not dream of kissing the mouth of a flower and then settle for its leaves - i don’t need more friends”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“the sun can’t stop the storm from coming the tree can’t stop the ax”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“i want to sit with the teenage version of my mother. ask about her dreams. become her pleated braid. the black kohl caressing her eyelids. the flour neatly packed into her fingertips. a page in her schoolbooks. even to be a single thread of her cotton dress would be the greatest gift. - to witness a miracle”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“they should feel like home a place that grounds your life where you go to take the day off - the one”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“i am made of water of course i am emotional”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“beautiful brown girl your thick hair is a mink coat not all can afford beautiful brown girl you hate the hyperpigmentation but your skin can’t help
carrying as much sun as possible you are a magnet for the light unibrow—the bridging of two worlds”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“vagina—so much darker than the rest of you cause it is trying to hide a gold mine”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“appreciate the halos beautiful brown girl you pull god out of their bellies”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“wait till you see me in my thirties now that will be a proper introduction to the nasty. wild. woman in me. how can i leave before the party’s started rehearsals begin at forty i ripen with age i do not come with an expiration date and now for the main event curtains up at fifty let’s begin the show - timeless”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“our work should equip the next generation of women to outdo us in every field this is the legacy we’ll leave behind - progress”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“But all the things you can’t stand about yourself are all the things I can’t go a day without.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts