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“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.”
― JK Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.”
― J.A. Redmerski , The Edge of Never

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“When you're with someone for so long you get used to them, y'know? It's a comfort-zone thing. When we get settled in our comfort zone, trying to pull us out of it even if everything about it is hell and unhealthy, is like trying to pull a fat ass couch potato out of his living room long enough to get a life.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“There is a whole lot more to life than winning.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.”
― sara gruen, Water for Elephants