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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.”
― Margaret Cho

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
― Jodi Picoult

“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“An ache filled my chest, so sharp that I gasped out loud. Was this what a broken heart felt like? Was it possible to die from the pain? I’d always thought the girls at school so dramatic; when they broke up with their boyfriends, they cried and carried on for weeks. I didn’t think they needed to throw such a fuss. But I’d never been in love before.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“I am practicing being kind over being right.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“I still love you in my own fucked-up way.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.