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“people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“Their grandfather had been a professor at UC Davis and thanks to him they knew the founders’ names of the top Fortune 500 companies before they knew the states and their capitals. Ever since then she referred to major businesses by their founder’s name.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Jack and Jill: The Complete Trilogy

“he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Long relationships might be richer, but relatively brief, relatively uncomplicated encounters with interesting people could be lovely as well. Every person you knew, every person you loved even, did not have to consume you for the time to have been worthwhile.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don’t want to love more than I am loved. And I don’t want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There are a hundred kinds of silence. There’s the thick silence of places long sealed shut, and the muffled silence of ears stoppered up. The empty silence of the dead, and the heavy silence of the dying. There is the hollow silence of a man who has stopped praying, and the airy silence of an empty synagogue, and the held-breath silence of someone hiding from themselves. There is the awkward silence that fills the space between people who don’t know what to say. And the taut silence that falls over those who do, but don’t know where or how to start.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“That time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“When people talk about falling in love, I think they are right, it is like falling and sometimes when we fall we can get very badly hurt.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“You know, in the way you might have a crush on the captain of the football team in high school. You’re not going to date the captain of the football team. You know your place—and your place is: A scribe for student government. A student liaison for community service. Vice president of the spreadsheet club.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“And here, right here, is the trouble with being close to other people. The better they know you, the better they can hurt you.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“Remember to pick the boy that will pant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“When you don’t know what to do for yourself, do something for someone else.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“Boys are fun. Lots of fun. But don't let one stand in the way of your greatness.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“It’s a lot having you here. It kind of feels like I’ve been punched in the heart.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“It never ceases to amaze me how foolproof the rule is: the person who cares the least (or pretends to) holds the power.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“Ithink there is a reason they call it falling in love. It’s the moment, at the top of the roller coaster, when your heart hangs in your throat. It’s the time between when you jump from the cliff and when you hit the ocean. It’s the realization that there’s no ground beneath your feet when you miss a step on the ladder, when the branch of the tree breaks, when you roll over and run out of mattress. Here’s what they do not tell you about falling in love: there’s not always a soft landing beneath you. It’s called falling, because it’s bound to break you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“You’re not the only person to be sad. Sometimes I think, if you’re not really sad in this world, you’re just not paying attention.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“But I find the antidote to that is just keeping a sense of humor. And staying humble. And laughing a lot. And doubling down on smiling. We’re all just muddling through, after all. We’re all just doing the best we can. We’re all struggling with our struggles. Nobody has the answers. And everybody, deep down, is a little bit lost.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“They were often too honest, the words they chose too blunt. Their worlds were big and bold and colorful but they were not yet able to distinguish that colors had values, that words had nuance. They described the people around them as old or young, ugly or beautiful, fat or thin, never recognizing that there were kinder, gentler, more forgiving words that lay in between.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“Look, everyone’s got history. Everyone has baggage. If you’re lucky enough to find someone willing to lug it around for you, you should let them. It doesn’t have to be ‘til death do you part. Just go have some fun!”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“I told my mother. Think she bought the whole “just bumped into each other” thing. Is that why she followed me on Instagram ten minutes ago? SHE DID WHAT???”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“Daisy your real name, by the way?” So many people asked her this. They either asked her this or they told her they had a dog named Daisy.”
― Jasmine Guillory, Drop, Cover, and Hold On

“Mais, quand ça te tombe dessus, ça ne se contrôle pas.” Love, she said, was not always perfect, and not exactly how you expected it to be. But when it descended upon you, there was no controlling it.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I’ve believed in the potential for something serious. Something that might last forever. I’m not a person who guards my heart, I’m a person who offers it freely, willingly, pathetically.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“Mom always says when you think something good about someone, you should say it out loud,”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“Your heart is so big, Eloise. And so tender.” “And you just keep giving pieces of it away.” Raya’s face is earnest, not judgmental.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“Every time I’ve been in a relationship, I always thought there was the possibility of it lasting forever. I had hope. Every time.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“We’re strong, capable women, but we still like to be told we’re pretty.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm