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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him -Alice Seabold, The Lovely Bones

Story of my life: I am so self-destructive, I turn solutions into problems. Everything I touch, I ruin. I'm Midas in reverse. -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin & walk around in it. –Harper Lee,To Kill A Mockingbird

Life had gone on. It always did. That's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You couldn't stop it. You couldn't go back to the moments you wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap. -Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.  ~Mignon McLaughlin ,The Neurotic's Notebook

It's pathetic, how we can't live with the tihngs we can't understand. How if we can't explain something we'll just deny it. -Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known -Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. -Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open -Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Maybe we should all decide we're going to meet the man of our dreams when we're thirty-seven. Then we'll stop squeezing into tight shirts and walking around half-naked and analyzing every encounter as future husband material. We’ll stop feeling the need to put on makeup to take out the trash just in case he's walking by. Maybe we should just assume that we'll meet our dream man at some future point, and stop driving ourselves crazy before then. -Caren Lissner, Starting From Square Two

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way. -Mayra Hornbacher, Wasted

You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything. - Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have... is now. -Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

He thought time and patience would change me, and, though I knew he was dead wrong, I also knew that I would let him try. He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough. -Stephanie Meyer, New Moon

Everytime I shot back with," What's wrong with living in a dream world?" she'd say, " you have to wake up" -Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

And the weirdest thing of all is that it feels so right. I supposes it's true what they say, you never know it's right until it is, although I'm really scared of saying that out loud just in case he turns out to be a bastard, but somehow I don't think he will. -Jane Green, Mr. Maybe

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