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“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“the world was collapsing and the only thing that mattered to me was that she was still alive”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“if it takes a million kisses for her not to think about the scars that surround her heart tattoo, then i’ll kiss her there a million and one times”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I didn't know what to say to him. I loved Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn't matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad's”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty