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“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Either I'm changing very quickly, and everything is standing still, or I'm the one standing still and everything is changing around me. Either way, I'm out of joint with the world.”
― Bernie Su, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet

“Two parts of me have been at war. Your... odd family, your financial troubles- your in a different world from me. people expect me to travel in certain circles. And I do respect the wishes of my family, but not today. I've tried to fight it for months now, but Lizzie Bennet... I'm in love with you.”
― Bernie Su, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet

“Decades can pass,
You can move countries,
Wars can be fought,
People can die,
People can change,
But the stars stay the same.
They stay constant,
They are really the only reliable things in life”
― NorthByNorth, Saving Elliot

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Saying “yes” doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying “please” doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.”
― amy poehler, Yes Please

“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin. Maybe a day even comes when you are getting dressed for a fancy event and it whispers, “You aren’t pretty,” and you go, “I know, I know, now let me find my earrings.” Sometimes you say, “Demon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I am allowed to have healthy self-esteem.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

“I am your friend Bob!”
― Rick Riordan, The Demigod Files

“If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you.”
― Percy Jackson, The Demigod Files

“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent