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“Did you just get tired of talking?” she asks. “No,” he says. “I just got actually tired. This doesn’t really feel like talking.” “What does it feel like?” “Just feels like being here,” he says. “It’s relaxing.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“All year I've felt like I had to be on my best behavior, like I was auditioning for new friendships, new identities, a new life.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“As I grab my bag, Evelyn takes the coffee out of my hand, carrying it for me. I once read that charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.” And I can’t help but think of that now, when she’s holding my coffee for me. The combination of such a powerful woman and such a small and humble gesture is enchanting, to be sure.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“He told me he wanted to do work that invigorated him. He said, “You have to do that, too, Monique. When you’re older. You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small. OK? You promise me that?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“For a brief moment, I wonder if I would have listened to him if he hadn't died. Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice had felt unlimited?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“My name trembles in the air, and speech has never been so hard to find. But he needs it. He needs me to give voice to my feelings, because he’s not a mind reader and it’s not okay thhat I soak up what he gives without offering myself in return. I can’t let him think he’s alone, not for one moment.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Loneliness wasn’t the absence of people, she realised. It was the absence of people who understood you.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it - whatever it was and then making yourself follow through.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“How easy to be dead. How lucky to be alive, even for just one day”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“If you risk nothing you gain nothing”
― Bear Grylls

“Savour the moments of sheer happiness like a precious jewel - they come unexpectedly and with an intoxicating thrill.
But there will also be moments, of course, when everything is black - perhaps someone you love dearly may hurt or disappoint you and everything may seem too difficult or utterly pointless. But remember, always, that everything passes and nothing stays the same… and every day brings a new beginning, and nothing, however awful, is completely without hope.
Kindness is one of the most important things in life and can mean so much. Try never to hurt those you love. We all make mistakes, and sometimes, terrible ones, but try not to hurt anyone for the sake of your own selfishness.
Try always to think ahead and not backwards, but don’t ever try to block out the past, because that is part of you and has made you what you are. But try, oh try, to learn a little from it.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography

“Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
If we tell ourselves often enough that we don’t have what it takes, then that will inevitably become our reality.
But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.
It would involve paying a huge price in sweat and hard work; it would involve having to train longer and harder than ever before.
And the mind would have to drive it all.
It was a decision I had already made years earlier.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“And to think you consider yourself hard to love.” I kiss her temple. “Loving you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal