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“I felt as if my mother was the only person who could help me grieve her. How could she leave me to do that alone?”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I'm ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“You poor, confused little love lover”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

“This is my problem. I don’t know how to talk along the surface of things, but I also don’t want to unearth the ugly stuff, over and over again, for people who are just passing through my life. It’s depleting. Like every time I dole out a kernel of my history to someone who’s not going to become a fixture I bc my life, a piece of me gets carried away, somewhere I can never get it back.

You can’t untell someone your secrets. You can’t I say those delicate truths once you learn you can’t trust the person you handed them to.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“My devotion to Autumn is engraved on my very being. I am in awe of her. I will sit in the stands and cheer her on in life as her most ardent admirer. I know I will always love her in the same way I know I'll always need oxygen.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“Try to make it sound like having too much history with Magnolia Parks isn’t the mounted deer I’ll hang in the hallway of who I am, like loving her isn’t the first thing you see when you walk through the door of me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“Suddenly my mind feels so crowded, as if my thoughts aren’t filtering out in the way most thoughts do. As if something is blocking the exit. As if, rather than in and out of my mind in an orderly line, one thought replacing another, they linger. All of them. Half sound like me; they speak with the internal voice I’ve always recognized as my own. The other half do not. The other half—they have their own voice. They’re loud. So loud. The other half—they have their own voice. They’re loud. So loud. They’re a living thing. They’re hundreds of blind moths in search of a flame, flying chaotically about my mind, crashing into each other, knocking things over. I cringe as glass shatters in places I can’t see.”
― Emma Noyes, How to Hide in Plain Sight

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

“She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another.

Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here. ”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You know how ballerinas pick a spot to look at when they’re doing a pirouette so they don’t get dizzy? Bridget was Magnolia’s spot on the wall.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“I exist to exist alongside of you.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“Grace costs you nothing”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“And I hid the complicated feelings that came with trying to memorize someone you loved, just in case.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“But just know that no matter what you decide, and no matter what happens, I will feel this way about you for the rest of my life.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“It seems to me, Annie, that you are just waiting for someone to give you permission to be yourself out loud.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I know it hurts, but just think, now you know what it feels like for a man with a cold”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“I’m sorry someone made you feel like it’s hard to love you,’ she said.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“Love is a celebration,’ ” I read, my voice wobbling, “ ‘of life and death. It stays with you. It lingers, my darlings, long after I’m gone. Listen for me when the wind rushes through the trees. I love you.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“I’m beginning to think men are not sending us their best people.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“He sort of lives in his own world."
"She clearly lives in that world with him.”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Gus still thought he was missing something, some special piece other people had, the thing that made people stay...”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Can you die from a broken heart, do you know? And if I did and they cut me wide open, would I bleed loving him? When they lift my heart out of my chest cavity to weigh it, does it weigh the same as his top lip? Is his name carved into my third rib to the left? Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. He's killing me. Loving him is killing me too, and I'm afraid because how many loves really, do you get in a lifetime? How many chances do you give it before you let it go?”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks

“I love you, Win. I love you so much it makes me feel like I’ve hated everything else in my life up until now. Nothing compares to what I feel for you. Not even close.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“New things are scary.” “They don’t have to be.” “How are they not?” “Because some of my favorite things I haven’t even done yet.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Use me,” he said, his eye resigned. “Use me for whatever you want. Just stay.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“I’d forgotten how much I loved that sound—the sound of her just existing, reminding me that no matter how fucked up the world got, there was at least one good thing in it.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“I don’t know how no one else sees it. Sees her. It’s like we’re all staring at the same painting and every other person in this town is missing the point.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless