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“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful. ”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“How many people ask you to come share their life?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“that was her edge. her secret weapon. she didnt give a shit.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I spoke, I listened, and my heart broke, which is to say that it didn't break at all but became suddenly aware of its own wholeness in such a way it hurt like hell.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just have to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage