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    Colleen Hoover
    “I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
    tags: love, self
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    Colleen Hoover
    “No one is likable from the inside out.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
    tags: likeability, love
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    Colleen Hoover
    “It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.

    Which was fine. I wasn’t in the mood to be solved”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
    tags: colleen-hoover, jeremy, lowen, verity
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  • #7
    Colleen Hoover
    “Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
    tags: verity, writing, writing-life
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  • #9
    Colleen Hoover
    “Some families are lucky enough to never experience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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  • #11
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #13
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “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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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
    21584 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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  • #23
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “When love is not madness it is not love.”
    ― Pedro Calderon de la Barca
    tags: love, romance
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  • #24
    Dodie Smith
    “I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: college, life, write
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    John Green
    “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
    ― John Green
    tags: college, humor
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  • #26
    Anna Todd
    “I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don’t love the person, they can’t break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don’t think there are any more pieces to break.
    And I love him. I love Hardin.”
    ― Anna Todd, After
    tags: college, new-adult, romance
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  • #27
    “I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.”
    ― Kate Voegele
    tags: college, kate-voegele, major, music, singer
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  • #28
    Michelle Richmond
    “To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ”
    ― Michelle Richmond
    tags: college, degree, write, writer
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  • #29
    Koren Zailckas
    “But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”
    ― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
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    Criss Jami
    “Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: blank, college, confirmation, confirmed, development, education, exam, experimentation, fill-in-the-blank, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, learning, risk, school, study, test, wisdom
    43 likes



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