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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Be wary of men with something to prove.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.”
― Matt Haig

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.

My mother went through it.

I went through it.

I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.

I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. —Ellen DeGeneres”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant".”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“We all have a limit. What we’re willing to put up with before we break. When I married your father, I knew exactly what my limit was. But slowly . . . with every incident . . . my limit was pushed a little more. And a little more. The first time your father hit me, he was immediately sorry. He swore it would never happen again. The second time he hit me, he was even more sorry. The third time it happened, it was more than a hit. It was a beating. And every single time, I took him back. But the fourth time, it was only a slap. And when that happened, I felt relieved. I remember thinking, ‘At least he didn’t beat me this time. This wasn’t so bad.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Lo que los padres dan a su hijo cuando juegan no son conocimientos ni técnicas de estudio, sino la maravillosa sensación de sentirse amado, respetado, importante.”
― Carlos González, Bésame mucho: Cómo criar a tus hijos con amor

“¿Por qué nos sorprende en los niños la misma conducta que veríamos como normal en un adulto?”
― carlos gonzalez, Kiss Me: How to Raise your Children with Love

“Tal vez sea defectuosa, tal vez todo lo que he experimentado es el
resultado de una falla. Pero si es así, ¡qué hermosa falla! Tengo
mis propios pensamientos y sentimientos. Me hice una vida.”
― Peter Brown

“I'll tell you what: If I could do it all over again, I'd spend more time helping others. All I've ever done is dig tunnels. Some of them were real beauties too, but they're all hidden underground, where they're no good to anyone but me.”
― Peter Brown, The Wild Robot