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“Likeyoubye”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
-George to Alanna”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“I am not wise, but I can always learn.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“Didn’t they realize that the only way to change things was to act?”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set. Nor are there model answer papers.”
― Sudha Murthy, Wise & Otherwise

“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“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

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“My heart is not mine to give because it is already yours.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“If your hero's backstory is more interesting than their present story, you're writing the wrong book.”
― Kristen Kieffer

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Is there no privacy in this family?' Everyone at the table answers, 'No.”
― Ashley Elston, 10 Blind Dates

“Who do you think Nonna picked for you tonight?” he asks. I shrug and look down at the floor. It’s too hard to maintain eye contact with him and not blurt our every thought swimming in my brain. “No idea.” “I wish it was me,” he says quietly, and my head shoots up. “You do?” I ask. He gets up from the chair and moves slowly toward me. “I wish all the dates had been mine.”
― Ashley Elston, 10 Blind Dates

“Ugly sweater party. 6:30 p.m. (And yes - you have to wear an ugly sweater)”
― Ashley Elston, 10 Blind Dates

“Sophie, your grandmother is seeing this.” Jake yells from the front porch.”
― Ashley Elston, 10 Blind Dates

“I crank the music up so loud I can't think about any of the things that could go wrong today”
― Ashley Elston, 10 Truths and a Dare

“I watch her shoulders move as she breathes, until I realize I’ve timed my breathing with hers.”
― Loan Le, A Pho Love Story

“It's really, really hard to recognize someone as the villain in someone else's life when you're pretty sure you love them both.”
― Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance