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“You can't choose the time and place, the when and where, and with whom you fall in love.”
― Sarah Tregay, Love and Leftovers

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“There is no three-strikes when it comes to dating. One heartbreak and that's it.”
― Sarah Tregay, Love and Leftovers

“There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“I don’t know much, but this is what I’ve learned. You’ll fall for the last person you ever thought you’d be interested in. That’s the tricky part. You might not even notice her at first. And she usually comes around just when you’ve stopped looking. But if you pay attention, you’ll know it’s her because she’ll stand out from everybody else. She might even scare you. But if you’re lucky enough to meet this girl, be smart enough to realize it and try not to screw it up.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

“Life is too short to waste time on people who don't lift you up, who don't inspire you-they'll eventually drain you.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.”
― Katie Kacvinsky

“Sometimes the smallest victories in life are more rewarding than the greatest milestones.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

“...falling in love and trying to make someone fall in love with you and working to stay in love and forcing yourself to fall out of love with someone who will never love you back is much, much more exhausting than being alone.”
― Marla Miniano, Table for Two

“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“What do you do when you're in love with the last man in the world you can have? You plan a life, a real life, without him.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“Love is a many-splendored thing," she says. "But it is also a pain in the ass.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“But now...it's like when part of you stops hurting and suddenly you're yourself again, healthy and whole, and only then do you understand that you've been in pain for a while.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“I’m ready to stop saying good-bye to things. I’m
going to start saying hello.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“Sanity is overrated.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice"
"No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“I am stronger than my trials.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we're going to make that future as reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent whenever we find it. We have to trust one another again.”
― Dan Wells, Partials