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“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“You have to stick up for yourself,"he told me.
"But it's bad to throw rocks," I said.
"I know," he said. "You're smarter than me, you'll find something better than rocks.”
― Nicole Krauss

“I believed, like the child I once was, fairy tales were more than just stories that our parents read to us every night before bed. I believed that I would one day grow into a princess and Prince Charming would rescue me on his white horse and whisk me away into the distance.

... And they lived happily ever after.

What a crock of shit.”
― S.K. Hartley, Once upon a Time

“My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotion pain, it's a physical pain too.”
― Jerilee Kaye , Knight in Shining Suit

“A good friends should be able to tell you anything. Maybe your boyfriend's screwing around, or a dress that makes your love handles hang over like a shar-pei's skin? In either case, if they're not brave enough to tell it like it is? They're not your best friend.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“Fucking Wallbanger,” I hissed, frozed on the spot.
His grin slid off as well as he played place-the-face for a moment. “Fucking Pink Nightie Girl.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“He was wooing me. And I was letting him woo. I wanted the woo. I deserved the woo. I needed the wow that would surely follow the woo, but for now, the woo? It was whoa.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Fucking gorgeous man. And the best part? The way he looked at me. Like I was the prettiest girl in the room.
“Hey, baby.”
The man was a poet.
“Hey.”
I was too.”
― Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed

“His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. 'I don't want to put things off, even though we haven't been together a really long time. I don't want to wait--you never know what can...Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.”
― Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Love? I was starting to wonder what that word meant. It seemed that people tossed it around to everyone nowadays. Myself included.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Loving Mr. Daniels

“Why are you pretending?"

"Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're really sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Loving Mr. Daniels

“She believed she could, so she did.”
― R.S. Grey, Scoring Wilder

“I'm not playing around with you, Kinsley. I want to be with you," he whispered in my ear before releasing my arm. I stumbled into the hallway, trying to gather my wits.”
― R.S. Grey, Scoring Wilder

“I reached out and petted the length of it with two fingers as if timidly greeting a live, rabid animal.

Sweat beaded on Mason's brow. He looked tortured, but he appeared to love every second of his suffering. "You are such a comedian. You know that's not what I meant by touch it. It's not a freaking dog."

"Um, no. I'd say this thing is more the size of a bull.”
― Linda Kage, Price of a Kiss

“You’re crazy,” I whispered, attempting to tug my hand from Sebastian’s grip.
“Crazy for you,” he countered, leading me into his kitchen through the back patio
door.
“You’re ridiculous.” I rolled my eyes.
“Ridiculously infatuated with you,” he revised, tugging me along behind him.”
― Julie Johnson, Say the Word

“I don’t care how you label yourself — friend, girlfriend, strange blonde girl who follows me around…”
He laughed when I smacked him on the arm.
“It doesn’t matter. What matters is that I’m crazy about you,”
― Julie Johnson, Say the Word

“Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam.

- I shall either find a way, or make one.”
― Julie Johnson, Say the Word

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Simon does commando. God bless America.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“You really have no idea, do you?”
“No idea about what?”
“How thoroughly you own me, Nightie Girl,” he said, leaning in to whisper this part in my ear. “And I know I love you enough to want you to have your happy ending.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Always good when what you need and what you want are the same thing.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“I breathed in, he breathed out. We traded actual air.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“The guy was sexy with a capital S-E-X-Y. Yes, that’s right, all of his letters deserved to be capitalized.”
― R.S. Grey, The Duet

“Mackenzie raises her hand proudly. “I have a bagina.”
I smirk. “Yes, you do sweetheart. And someday, it’s gonna help you rule the world.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“What if the reason I’ve never let myself fall in love with a woman is because I didn’t have anything to give? Because I’d already given my heart to her when we were seventeen years old? And all these years…I’ve just been waiting for her to come back to me with it.”
― Emma Chase, Appealed