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“You may have ruined my life, June. But first, you gave me one.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“And then I spoke my vows into the summer wind. That I'd love him forever. That I would always, always come back. That no matter what, I would find him.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped with it.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“They fit together like puzzle pieces, and the thought made a pain erupt inside of me that I could hardly bear. This was the field that I had planted. With my very own hands. And then I'd left it all to rot.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“She was a prism that colored me and my world with a story. We were the limbs of a broken tree with poisoned roots.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“don’t think that true love means your only love.

I think true love means loving truly.

Loving purely. Loving wholly.

Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt . . . maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock.

No matter how good you feel right now, you know it’s time to go.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“We are two people who are madly in love with our old selves. And that is not the same as being in love.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Happiness is not something you sit and wait for. You have to choose it and pursue it in spite of everything else. It’s not going to be given to you.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“What he hasn’t realized is stupid people aren’t usually quiet. Stupid people are usually the noisiest people in the room.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“I’ve read it before, but as I get older, I find comfort in rereading favorites. It’s like spending time with old friends.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Whatever you need to do, you get it done and you move on. Put it behind you and survive.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Because if you stop you admit the bad stuff has won, don’t you? All you can do is keep going. Refuse to be beaten, even when you are beaten. The bad stuff only wins if you let it. I refuse to be beaten, Cassie. I refuse.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“But you have to let things go or it will eat you up. Let things pass.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Don’t waste your life hidden away in your own mind. Make the most of the time you have, otherwise before you know it, you’ll have no time left.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“She wondered then if experiences were always better in retrospect, in reminiscence. Was it possible to truly enjoy something in the moment?”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“A good story is just as good the second time around,” she said.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“They came together so rarely, but Drummond wondered if the meetings would be as good if they happened more often. Would they enjoy each other as much if they met more frequently? He knew these were the uncertain thoughts of an introvert, and he pushed them away in an attempt to live in the moment.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“I am firmly of the view that more people in this world could use their brains more often, but my dear, if anyone needs to think less about things it is you.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Some scars are carved into our bones—a part of who we are, shaping what we become.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“The love stories sold us the wrong thing. The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about. Taking the end piece of the bread at breakfast so she can have the last middle piece for her sandwich when you pack her lunch. Making sure her car always has gas so she never has to stop at the pump. Telling her you’re not cold and to take your jacket when you are in fact, very, very cold. It’s watching TV on a rainy Sunday while you’re doing laundry and turning her light off when she’s fallen asleep reading. Sharing pizza crusts and laughing about something the kids did and taking care of each other when you’re sick. It isn’t glamorous, it isn’t all butterflies and stars in your eyes. It’s real. This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Words are wind.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Nina is living proof of the theory that eldest daughters carry the weight of the whole family on their shoulders.”
― Tory Henwood Hoen, Before I Forget

“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.”
― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions for a Vibrant Marriage

“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”
― sarah ruhl, Eurydice

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”
― Jodi Picoult