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“The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“I need a chapter break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

“Wife? Are you sure you're ready to not call retreat? Right now?

"I'm butterflying positive.”
― Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat

“You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.”
― Fisher Amelie, Vain

“No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.”
― Fisher Amelie, Vain

“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
― Johnny Depp

“When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?”
― A. Meredith Walters, Cloud Walking

“You don't need to talk to someone to know them. All you need to do is watch. See how they carry themselves. See how they treat others.”
― Jennifer Minar-Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“Spending time, here in Eufaula, has helped me realize that barreling through life at a breakneck pace -- while exciting, sometimes glamorous, and always loads of fun -- has been, at best, a distraction. A useful tool in avoiding personal introspection or thoughts of the future.”
― Lauren Clark

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown?”
― Annie Jones

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook