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#1

“I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.”
― Carolyn Mackler, The Future of Us

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#2

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

tags: bailey, happiness, loser, sisterhood

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#3

“There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

tags: bee, bridget, carmen, dichotomy

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#4

“She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

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#5

“When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. ”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

tags: memory

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#6

“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: happiness, inspirational, living, unhappiness, waiting

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#7

“I lie on top of him, skin to skin. He's tall, I'm not, but when we lie like this, we fit together. All the curves of my body relax into the strength of his.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

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#8

“There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#9

“You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

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#10

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”
― Candace Bushnell, Summer and the City

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#11

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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#12

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower

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#13

“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

tags: endings, happy-endings, life, risks

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#14

“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

tags: awoke, fire, shay, tally, traveling, uglies, ugly, world

488 likes

#15

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: home, love, relationships, touching

7280 likes

#16

“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

tags: dissatisfaction, pretties

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#17

“She wasn’t sure, yet, exactly what was at the other end of the fear. But she was finally starting to believe that whatever it was would be worth it.”
― Elizabeth Craft Sarah Fain, Bass Ackwards and Belly Up

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#18

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

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#19

“And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing you could be the author instead.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

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#20

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

tags: destruction, freedom

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#21

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: paraphrased

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#22

“I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

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#23

“There's no story,' I say. 'I saw you one day, and I just knew.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

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#24

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: idealizations, love

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#25

“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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#26

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.”
― jenny han , To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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#27

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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#28

“You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.”
― Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

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#29

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

tags: art, love

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#30

“I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

tags: evan-walker

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