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“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I guess I’m saying…if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“When you have everything, someone else getting a little something feels like they’re stealing from you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“democracy sounds like a great idea, but bands aren’t countries.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“DAISY: I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“No matter what you do, we’re not over…”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I don’t believe in soul mates anymore and I’m not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“She’s going to be the girl bleeding in a beautiful dress until it kills her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Dancing barefoot in the snow/cold can’t touch her, high or low.” That’s Daisy Jones.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“And I said, “And no one’s gonna judge me if I end up sounding like a screeching cat?” And I’ll never forget, Billy leaned onto the button, and said, “If you were a cat, your screech would bring every cat running to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Just two bitches playing rock ’n’ roll.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“And Billy saw me the way I wanted to be seen. There is nothing more powerful than that. I really believe that. Everybody wants somebody to hold up the right mirror.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Some people will never stop being themselves. And you think it drives you crazy but it is the very thing you will think about when they are gone.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“It just became so perfectly clear to me that I had been holding on tightly to the possibility. The possibility of Daisy. And suddenly, I was having a very hard time with the idea of letting that go. Of saying, “Never.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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

“Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Ellen DeGeneres, you are such a bitch.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I realized that maybe she didn’t acknowledge it because that’s what she does. Things that hurt her just get swept under the rug, never to be brought up again.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.”
― 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.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I wanted to see a blue-footed booby.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“We think in story. The brain evolved to use story as its go-to “decoder ring” for reality, and so we’re really expert at probing stories for specific meaning and specific info—and I mean all of us, beginning at birth.”
― Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel