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“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“and after everything had been said and done I realized, you cannot keep people no matter how far you go to do so. You don't have any control over what they choose to do.
Even if they choose to leave you on your own.
Even if they choose to make you hate love”
― Simran.M.Anthony

“There are things we all know about but we don't think they are important.
Like hurting while seeing your share of love and attention going to someone else but smiling at it because you tell yourself that maybe they deserved it more.
No. You deserved it.
What makes you think you don't?”
― Simran.M.Anthony

“Even if I told you what scares me, you wouldn't understand how it feels.
So just so you know, I've travelled roads I had no idea where they'd take me to.
And maybe I don't know much about life and its horrors but trust me, I know enough.

And I can fix everything, like I always have.”
― Simran.M.Anthony

“I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.”
― Ninni Holmqvist, The Unit

“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She kept watching the words. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“We must always welcome the end of all things. For sometimes knowing nothing lasts forever is the only way we can learn to fall in love with all the moments, and all the people, that are meant to take our breath away.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them.

I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself,”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral.” “Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do,”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”
― Charles Bukowski

“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh”
― Charles Bukowski

“sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you.”
― Stephen Cosgrove, The Gnome from Nome

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist