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“When she first fell in love with Jack, she dreamed she could fly...”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."
Question: What's the probability they will kiss?”
― Jenny Downham, You Against Me

“They say it's the woman's prerogative to change her mind. But that's wrong. Guys are the one who get to say, "You know what? I don't want to be with you after all." They get to say it after they've sucked all the sweetness out of you, just like those cheap, liquid filled wax candy things we used to get for Halloween. They leave you dried up, empty piece of wax, and head off to find somebody else who still has some sweetness inside.”
― Holly Schindler, A Blue So Dark

“The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“He leans forward and his mouth brushes briefly
against mine, and I feel... nothing.

I was hoping our first kiss would trigger all sorts of memories or sensations, maybe a sudden image of Paris or our wedding, or our first snog. But as he draws away I feel totally, one hundred percent blank.

I can see the anticipation in Eric's face and quickly search for something encouraging to say.

"That was lovely! Very..." I trail off, unable to think of a single word other than quick, which I'm not sure hits the right note.

"It didn't bring back any memories?" Eric is studying my face.

"Well...no," I say apologetically. "But, I mean, that doesn't mean it wasn't really... I mean it was... I feel quite turned on!" The words come out before I can stop them.

What the hell did I say that for? I don't feel turned on.

"Really?" Eric lights up and he puts his briefcase down.

Oh no. No no no. Nooo.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“I'm Cinderella. No, I'm better than Cinderella, because she only got the prince, didn't she? I'm Cinderella with fab teeth and a shit-hot job.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince.

"What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?"

"That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago."

I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?"

"There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-"

"Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.”
― Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

“Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.”
― Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller