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“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“More disturbing than hurt is love when it's wrong.”
― Ali Land, Good Me, Bad Me

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Dangerous to think you know too much, sometimes, because who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. Into their bones.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“The problem is that a secret takes on a life of its own over time.”
― Fiona Barton, The Child

“In what world do men and women pay the same price for passion?”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

“Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in order. Modernity is talkative because it is proud, unless the converse is true. Is our incessant talking perhaps what makes us proud?”
― Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

“I don’t want us to be something that only exists in the dark, in the cracks, in the places people don’t want to look or talk about.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“Effie couldn't disregard the awful sight of the blood that cursed this room with its stains. Stains that someone had taken the time to hid by rearranging the furniture.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“We're afraid of death in part because we're afraid of the grief that follows. Death is momentary, but grief is what's left behind. The remnants of every memory, every moment, every emotion. Grief is all the unspoken words that will never be said, the lost I-love-you's, and the emptiness of the shadows they leave behind. Grief is a demon that stalks us.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“We're all just threads, tangled and frayed, but we keep weaving.”
― Chris Panatier, Stringers

“The universe takes you back.”
― Chris Panatier, Stringers

“She wasn't normally given to talking over much, but something about this man made her want to step forward and poke his chest. Move into his space and push until she cracked the grumpy facade he wore like porcupine quills.”
― Misty M. Beller, Rocky Mountain Journey

“But that was still the problem. When you loved someone, eventually that person would be wrenched away from you. Either now or when you were both gray and wrinkled - or any moment in between.”
― Misty M. Beller, Rocky Mountain Journey

“Sometimes it seemed Faith saw the parts of him he did his best to hide. But the biggest wonder was that his weaknesses didn't push her away. Instead, she pressed in harder.”
― Misty M. Beller, Rocky Mountain Journey

“I always leave when I am wanted, for how else shall I be missed? Besides, I cannot make our dear captain uncomfortable. Don't worry, I will be back.”
― Anneka R. Walker, The Lady Glass

“I have a feeling Lady Glass is going to remember a life she's never lived before.”
― Anneka R. Walker, The Lady Glass

“Wars and toiling for our bread might humble and give us character, but it's love that makes men out of us.”
― Anneka R. Walker, The Lady Glass

“I'm learning that the only way to chase away darkness is the same way the sun clears a storm. One must immerse themselves with light thoughts and memories of better days.”
― Anneka R. Walker, The Lady Glass