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“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing."
"I'm supposed to watch her make a mistake?"
"Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”
― Nicholas Sparks, See Me

“with every passing year she found herself wondering more and more where all the good guys had gone. Or even if there really was such a thing anymore. Where were the guys who didn’t expect you to sleep with them after only a date or two? Or guys who believed that picking up the check on a first date was a classy thing to do? Or even a guy with a somewhat decent job and plans for the future?”
― Nicholas Sparks, See Me

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“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

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird