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“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best...my very best, I set you free”
― Rachel Yamagata

“We need to stop hiding our tears and actually share them. It takes a strong person to cry. It takes a stronger person to let others see those tears. We need to be tough enough to be tender, no matter who is watching.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Like every wounded woman, I wanted someone who would never hurt me, never let me down, never reject or abandon me. It was an impossible order.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“He’d be the first to say God never gives us more than we were designed to carry. Some of us were designed for more, some for less. No matter what, even if we are asked to carry a portion of sky, it is beyond bearable. It is gift.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“In time, I found out that in God’s economy nothing is ever wasted. All those “dead-end jobs” prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“You can compare yourself to those above you and whine or compare yourself to those below you and gloat, or you can stay focused on that man or woman in the mirror and embrace his or her unique assignment with gratitude.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Create a greater you. Create and live a life that is so good, it doesn’t matter if anyone comes along. Say yes to every opportunity to make new friends, meet new people, try new adventures. Get busy living the life of your dreams instead of looking for the man or woman of your dreams. It’s like the proverbial butterfly: once you stop chasing it, it will gently land on your shoulder. Instead of looking for the right partner, become the right man or woman… for you. Be your best, deepest, truest self. Make yourself attractive to you.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Whatever you do, it’s up to you. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“you can be happy or you can be miserable. It takes the same amount of effort.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace, as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and about is seeming trouble. Perpetual”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Every”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“When you finally let go of the person you used to be, you get to discover the person you are now and the person you want to become.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“What must it be like, to have a boy like you so much he cries for you?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I wonder what it’s like to have that much power over a boy. I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop. I”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit. That’s why you can’t save it all up like that. Because by the time you finally see each other, you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy. I”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”
― Jenny Han

“I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'

Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You