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Lost love s still love. It takes a different form that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor, but when those senses weaken, another heightens; memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

and even though she was sitting in the seat next to him, he felt her in everything, in the steering wheel, in the gas pedal, in the blinking of his eye, in the clearing of his throat. every move he made was about hanging on to her -Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

When it’s time to die, go ahead and die, and when it’s time to live, live. Don’t sort-of-maybe live, but live like you’re going all out, like you’re not afraid. -Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. 'Look what's going to happen to me!'
Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, 'Why do you look so sad?' The first wave says, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?' The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'" -Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

Sometimes when we’re in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it’s a dangerous thing to do—because one day, like it or not, you’re going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren’t always who you want them to be. And if you’re not ready for the truth…well, let’s just say it can come as a bit of a shock. -Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well." -Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see; you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too -- even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling. –Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

Even though everything had ended, I didn’t regret it. I never regretted it, not for one second. How do you regret one of the best nights of your life? You don’t. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember. -Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. Love is the only rational act. –Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't. -Mitch Albom, For One More Day

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn’t starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn’t enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. -Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

I had to know that he existed. that was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.
-Stephanie Meyer, New Moon

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.-Anne Brashares, The Last Summer (of you and me)

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. -Laurie Halse Anderson, Winter Girls

"what happens if your choice is misguided?” I ask, softly.
“you must try to correct it.”
“but what if it’s too late? what if you can’t?”
“then you must find a way to live with it.”
-Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life. -Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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