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Do not pity the dead. pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love. -JK Rowling, HP & the Deathly Hallows

Our love has been like thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more destiny in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you. -Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

i feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car
& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires
i’m torn between the compulsion to run
& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass
-Koren Zailckas, Smashed

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to chose where we come from, we can still chose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them –Stephen Chobsky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

If I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that are people starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they are upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't change the fact that you have what you have. –Stephen Chobsky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

'Keep looking up', Mama used to tell me. 'There's nothing on the ground but your feet.'-Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

There is nothing to be done. Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind... -Janet Finch, White Oleander

Love is when a person believes that he, she, or it can't live without some other he, she, or it. No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love, is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do -Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

Can he really love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire, all full of passion. –Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

Certain things, they should just stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway. ~JD Saligner, The Catcher in the Rye

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.- Mark Twain

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands. -Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift

Nobody’s life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn’t be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs? -Cecilia Ahern, PS I Love You

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out. - Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

And I loved him, jesus how I loved him. It wasnt love of course, even I can see now that it was infatuation, but at the time it near enough killed me. Its so passionate, so intense, so painful, that even years afterward you still feel the hurt when you hear their name. - Jane Green. Straight Talking

Why did people say they were falling in love? Why didn't they step into love or slide into it like a baseball player heading for home? Was it the thrill, like jumping off a high dive, or the fear of not knowing how you might land? - Diane Les Becquets, Love, Cajun Style

Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, & only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do & not, not some other way. -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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