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#1

“I need you so fucking bad.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

tags: matthew-quick

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#2

“Misery is wasted on the miserable.”
― Louis C.K.

tags: endure, life, misery

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#3

“A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe
none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

tags: david-levithan, realm-of-possibility

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#4

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-forward, truth

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#5

“That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.”
― Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

tags: adulthood, growing-up

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#6

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

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#7

“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. ”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#8

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: beauty, music, sadness

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#9

“If you can imagine it, you're halfway there”
― Pete Hautman, The Big Crunch

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#10

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

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#11

“I hated that I let him touch my sweat, that he knew how I kissed. I wanted to collect my things from him, but the things were only moments.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

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#12

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#13

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#14

“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: forever, friendship, love, okay, suicide, suicide-note

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#15

“There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: bitterness, cynical, humour, love, ugly-truths

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#16

“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: abyss, cynical, negative, nietzsche, people

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#17

“Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit”
― Kinky Friedman, When the Cat's Away

tags: beauty, cynical, relationships, women

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#18

“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: depression, despair, loss, love

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#19

“Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards.”
― Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

tags: romance, young-adult

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#20

“I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.”
― Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

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#21

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

tags: humour, romance

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#22

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#23

“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.”
― Joan Bauer, Stand Tall

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#24

“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
― Emery Allen

tags: love, soul, soulmates, star

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#25

“Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: being-hard-to-get, easy-to-get, hard-to-get, holding-out-for-the-best, knowing-your-worth, not-settling, playing-hard-to-get, positive-thinking, self-worth, standards

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#26

“Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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#27

“There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he’s doing. Don’t deceive yourself, you don’t care about how he’s doing, you’re just craving him, don’t do it. You’ll only hurt yourself.”
― Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Because You Deserve Love

tags: breakup, call, deceive, ex, heartbreak

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#28

“And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.”
― Iain Thomas

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#29

“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”
― Emery Allen

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