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“After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist’s palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.”
― Marianne Williamson

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
― Erma Bombeck

“If you made something and it didn’t work out, let it go. Remember that you’re nothing but a beginner—even if you’ve been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go. Forget”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“There is nothing to say except that life is unfair. You will get over it, … but only time will heal your wounds, and then not completely. We just have to made do with what we have left and treasure those around us who are still alive.”
― Rhys Bowen, The Victory Garden

“Then how can prayers be answered if you do not call upon the saints to help? God is obviously too busy to do everything alone.”
― Rhys Bowen, The Tuscan Child

“Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what’s inside will change your life, but sometimes you don’t even have to read it. Sometimes it’s a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven’t even had their spines cracked. ‘Why do you buy books you don’t even read?’ our daughter asks us. That’s like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I don't know what's wrong with me, says Marianne. I don't know why I can't be like normal people.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Never trust a man who can dance.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Men aren't really complicated, Ana, honey. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said - when really it's obvious. If I were you, I'd take him literally. That might help.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“We have to learn to walk before we can run”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

“Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin’s lamp all rolled into one.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

“There are certain sacrifices that will never be repaid.”
― Natasha Lester, The Paris Secret

“The next time you get hung up in a victim mentality over why something isn’t working out the way you planned, simply say this prayer and realign with love: “Thank you, Universe, for helping me see this obstacle as an opportunity. I will step back and let you lead the way.”
― Gabrielle Bernstein, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

“If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

“Some clever children don’t discover how bright they are until after they’ve left school,’ continued Mr Holcombe, ‘and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind