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“You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.”
“What fills the holes in a soul?”
Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a few seconds. “Pieces of someone else’s soul.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“It’s like that pond I skated on when I was a kid—from a distance, the ice looked so shiny and smooth, until you got close enough to it, and suddenly all the uneven edges and crisscrossed skate marks became visible. That’s me, I guess. Covered with skate marks that nobody ever seems to notice.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“We’re all born with the greatest treasures we’ll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart. And the indispensable tools of those treasures are time and health. How you use the gifts of Allah to help yourself and humanity is ultimately how you honor Him.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“No one is likable from the inside out.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“My mom said I had serious trust issues, but honestly, the more people I met, the more I didn’t want to meet more.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
― Raymond Lindquist

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“love was all about learning to speak a person's language.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me. It was like a bolt of lightning hit me, Bree.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Forgiveness was a desperate heart's mistake.”
― Ella Fields, Serenading Heartbreak

“Sometimes things go my way, sometimes they don't. That's life. You just have to make the most of it.”
― Kim Holden, Bright Side

“There is no knowledge that is wrong. Only knowledge that is difficult, troubling, enlightening, liberating, and intoxicating.”
― Omar Saif Ghobash, Letters to a Young Muslim

“I wondered, for the very first time, if maybe I was doing this whole thing wrong. If maybe I'd allowed myself to be blinded by my own anger to the exclusion of all else. If maybe, just maybe, I'd been so determined not to be stereotyped that I'd begun to stereotype everyone around me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“Telling ourselves we cant do it, that we don’t have it in us, that we shouldn’t bother trying, only makes us want to hide.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“Now that I’ve forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him