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  • #1
    Fannie Flagg
    “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #2
    Alysha Speer
    “Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
    Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
    Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
    Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
    Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
    Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
    Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
    And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
    Alysha Speer

  • #3
    “This is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that reminds them of their current situation. Who hide their fears, hurt, pain and tears under the smiles, laughs and giggles on a daily basis. The girls who wear their heart on their sleeve. The girls who pray that things will work out just once and they'll be satisfied. The girls who sceam and cry to their pillows because everyone else fails to listen. The girls who have so many secrets but wont tell a soul. The girls who have mistakes and regrets as a daily moral. The girls that never win. The girls that stay up all night thinking about that one boy and hoping that he'll notice her one day. The girls who take life as it comes, to the girls who are hoping that it'll get better somewhere down the road. For the girls who love with all their heart although it always gets broken. To girls who think it's over. To real girls, to all girls: You're beautiful.”
    Zayn Malik

  • #4
    Yann Martel
    “I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #5
    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #6
    Marvin J. Ashton
    “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
    Marvin J. Ashton

  • #7
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #9
    Tennessee Williams
    “Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
    Tennessee Williams

  • #10
    Sara Teasdale
    “It is strange how often a heart must be broken
    Before the years can make it wise.”
    Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems

  • #11
    “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV)”
    Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

  • #12
    Emilie Autumn
    “I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
    Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

  • #13
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #14
    Simone Elkeles
    “My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
    My heart... not so much.”
    Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

  • #15
    Lisa Kleypas
    “Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”

    “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.

    He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.”
    Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

  • #16
    Criss Jami
    “The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #17
    Boris Pasternak
    “And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”
    Boris Pasternak

  • #18
    Criss Jami
    “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #19
    Sarah Dessen
    “That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.”
    Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

  • #20
    Paulo Coelho
    “I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.
    “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”
    Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

  • #21
    Michael Ondaatje
    “A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”
    Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

  • #22
    Patti Roberts
    “Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
    Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here

  • #23
    Jessica Verday
    “If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.”
    Jessica Verday, The Haunted

  • #24
    Olivia Cunning
    “If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.”
    Olivia Cunning, Backstage Pass



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