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“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“Contentment is a lie invented by capitalism,”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I knew how stupid and melodramatic it sounded, but with him, it was always so hard to rein myself in, to say anything but the absolute truth of how I felt. And worst of all, I hadn’t even known that was how I felt until this moment. Alex’s presence had a way of drawing the truth right to my surface”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m crying because I’m relieved. Because I will never again feel as alone as I did during those long nights as a kid. As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Sometimes it feels like I didn't even exist before that. Like you invented me.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume. It would always be with me. Everywhere I went, he’d be there too, and so I’d always feel like myself.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s not your job to make me happy, okay? You can’t make anyone happy. I’m happy just because you exist, and that’s as much of my happiness as you have control over.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“And even on those days when one or both of us is having a hard time, we'll be here, where we are completely known, completely accepted, by the person whose side we love wholeheartedly.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume.”
― Emily Henry, You and Me on Vacation

“The thought is terrifying, probably not even true. A dangerous idea to entertain. I release my hold on it, watch it slip away. But there are points in the center of my palms that burn, scorched, proof I once held it there.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Painful memories have strong legs from walking repeatedly into the spotlight.”
― Kanan Gill, Acts of God

“Yes, a motorcycle. Perhaps the reader is disappointed at the lack of hovering taking place. There is a congenital defect in futurism that is conjoined with the human desire to levitate. Even after flight was possible, records indicate some missing zing, some zazz, some zip, some pep, some unfulfilled yearning in all people to live as they were but move without their feet touching the ground. Perhaps people looked upon the future as a technological shortcut to divinity.”
― Kanan Gill, Acts of God

“Investigation unearthed political divides as arbitrary and re-earthed our home as one place; a shimmering disco bauble spinning over a cosmic after-party, a baby blue Vote For Life button on a dark velvet lapel, a nutty chocolate miracle wrapped in crinkly cerulean prayer rolling around in God’s glovebox – immense, impossible, unbelievable, alone. Our only spot in eternity. Our home.”
― Kanan Gill, Acts of God

“I think that with life, when anything happens, there’s many things you want to do, some things you should do, but really only one thing to do....Accept it.”
― Kanan Gill, Acts of God