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“And then a few years pass, and you want to slap your past self for ever thinking something that stupid.”
― Karla Sorensen, Focused

“sometimes, the best things in life come straight from your blind side.”
― Karla Sorensen, Focused

“I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside. I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies are full of—bones and muscles and blood and organs—yet my chest sometimes feels vacant, as if someone could scream into my mouth and it would echo inside of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“Imagine how great we'll be when I'm finally emotionally stable.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“It means people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“Sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“It isn’t a mask that she wears to cover the past but an invisible badge of courage.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“It’s not safe for you here.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“People are more gullible and less compassionate than any of us want to believe.”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

“there were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

“If I had learned anything from them, it was this: only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

“I suppose we all carry around different versions of ourselves”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“Do you know what Henry David Thoreau believed? ‘Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
― B.A. Paris, The Therapist

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
― B.A. Paris, The Therapist

“She is a woman at peace with herself. But we all have darkness within us and the deeper it’s buried, the more interesting it is.”
― B.A. Paris, The Therapist

“I think time has no meaning when it comes to grief.”
― B.A. Paris, The Therapist

“She's stunningly pretty but there's an air of sadness about her.”
― B.A. Paris, The Therapist

“I’d begun to think that I wasn’t cut out for long-term relationships and although there was a slight sadness that I might not find someone to spend the rest of my life with, it had never become a serious preoccupation of mine.”
― B.A. Paris, The Therapist

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“No one is likable from the inside out.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I was good at spewing bullshit. It's why I became a writer.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity