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“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Maybe it's not the first kisses that are supposed to be special. Maybe it's the last ones.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“And I would tell him, so full of twentysomething wisdom, that life is almost never about choosing between one thing you really want and another thing you don't want at all. If you're lucky, and healthy, and live in a country where you have enough to eat and no fear that you're going to get shot when you walk out your door, life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing.”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

“Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing.”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.”
― Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

“I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let myself read each day in order to put off the inevitable end, my banishment from that world”
― Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“There has to be more to life than just imagining a future for yourself. I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“He’s a book full of footnotes brought to life. He’s a jacket made of elbow patches.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“and between us grew the seed of an understanding: that sometimes people were just off their rockers.”
― Nicole Barrell, The Sham

“I'd love to blame by dysfunction on someone else - like maybe I was abducted by aliens, and the green little bastards unplugged my cerebellum, just for shits and giggles - but it's all my fault. And though I'm well aware it's an epic waste of time, and spirit, to wallow in regret, I can't seem to help it.”
― Bart Yates, The Language of Love and Loss

“Just five simple words: Please come back to me. How fucking hard would they have been to say?”
― Bart Yates, The Language of Love and Loss

“I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring, and neither does he, but right at the moment, I don't care.”
― Bart Yates, The Language of Love and Loss

“Yet whatever twinges of conscience I may have, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't do the same thing again, in a heartbeat.”
― Bart Yates, The Language of Love and Loss

“If you can't trust people with nose rings to be open-minded, who's left?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son