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“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off. It stays there forever,”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Seeing the ocean in person feels almost as important as having food and shelter. It doesn’t seem farfetched to believe a charity should exist for the sole purpose of allowing people to afford a trip to the beach. It should be a basic human right. A necessity. It’s like years of therapy, rolled up into a view.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Great. Fuck this summer. Fuck these people. Fuck the whole current state of my life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I’m not used to being seen.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“We just had too much piled on top of us to know what we're like when we're not under pressure.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Four months, she thought dully. Only four more months and she would graduate from high school and be able to leave home. Home. Whatever that meant.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Front

“Full of ridiculous ideas about good and evil. Lord Voldemort showed me how wrong I was. There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. . . . Since then, I have served him faithfully, although I have let him down many times.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“He has had to be very hard on me.” Quirrell shivered suddenly. “He does not forgive mistakes easily. When I failed to steal the Stone from Gringotts, he was most displeased. He punished me . . . decided he would have to keep a closer watch on me. . . .”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“What does this mirror do? How does it work? Help me, Master!” And to Harry’s horror, a voice answered, and the voice seemed to come from”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“See what I have become?” the face said. “Mere shadow and vapor . . . I have form only when I can share another’s body . . . but there have always been those willing to let me into their hearts and minds. . .”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Unicorn blood has strengthened me, these past weeks . . . you saw faithful Quirrell drinking it for me in the forest.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“He left Quirrell to die; he shows just as little mercy to his followers as his enemies.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“keep most people at arm’s length for a reason. If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you. They might not mean to, but if a better opportunity comes along, they will always leave you for it. I’ve learned the hard way that people – even loved ones – are transient”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“ones – are transient souls.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“When you get older you’ll understand that sometimes appearances can be deceptive,’ she replies. ‘You can never really know a person, no matter how much you love them.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“I take a deep breath as I realise I’m left with two options. I can take Nina to see a professional, and potentially subject her to more psychological trauma as they encourage her to unlock her repressed memories. Or we continue as we are, with me trying to keep her away from stressful situations. I decide to protect my little girl myself. I can’t risk unlocking the box she has consigned her dad’s abuse to.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“It’s when you feel the safest that you’re the most vulnerable.”
― Kiersten Modglin, Our Little Secret

“What if we were all monsters deep down, after all?”
― Kiersten Modglin, Our Little Secret

“I want to learn how to talk to people without wishing I could retract every word I said.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I want to be good at life. I want to make it look effortless, but up until this point, I’ve made every aspect of life appear entirely too difficult to navigate.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I barely feel like an adult. I’m a twenty-six-year-old teenager, inexperienced, starting from scratch.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I was in a new state and a new town and no one held any preconceived notions of me. No one knew my mother.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Ledger didn’t turn away when I cried, though. He did what you would have done. He put his arms around me and let me be however I needed to be,”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I’m happy for him. At least life works out for some people.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“But right now, I’m going to be selfish and focus on the one person in this world who sees me the way I wish everyone could see me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough
opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him