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“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing...”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Is happiness the aim?"
"I don't know. I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good,”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We're trying to be grown-up and love each other and understand how the hell you're supposed to insert USB leads. We're looking for something to cling on to, something to fight for, something to look forward to. We're doing all we can to teach our children how to swim. We have all of this in common, yet most of us remain strangers, we never know what we do to each other, how your life is affected by mine.
Perhaps we hurried past each other in a crowd today, and neither of us noticed, and the fibers of your coat brushed against mine for single moment and then we were gone. I don't know who you are.
But when you get home this evening, when this day is over and the night takes us, allow yourself a deep breath. Because we made it through this day as well.
There'll be another one along tomorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Some people want to decide for themselves how happy they are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me with me.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“It’s about having the right to choose—you can choose to put on a pinny and be a fifties housewife if you want, you can choose to travel to Peru and join a commune or enlist in the space program and be the first woman on Mars. You can live how you like; but the point is we should have the chance to choose, not get railroaded into a role society dictates for us.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“Don't let the fear of disappointing them stop you from living your fullest life.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I have no illusions about happily ever afters—I know life will bring its challenges and nothing is forever—but I hope we might be happy today, and for as many todays as we are lucky enough to have.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“No one doubts you constantly do your best. We all admire you so much for how hard you work. But some days, your best can be a B, and some days your best can even be a C, or some days, it could mean doing nothing at all but just breathing.”
― Mazey Eddings, A Brush with Love

“Choosing to love—despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love, anyway.. That’s not weakness, that’s courage.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“That’s how life is. Things happen. Lives get broken. Some people never can put themselves back together. I wondered if she would. I wondered if I would. . . . But what was that old saying my dad loved so much? The best revenge is forgetting. I clearly hadn’t forgotten a thing. Despite all my efforts.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Life was about taking chances. Going for what you wanted so that you didn't get old and have pages of regrets. Sometimes you won and sometimes you lost, as much as I hated it.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“When you love something you do whatever you need to do to protect it,”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable?
What a question.
You don’t. You can’t. Of course not.
Life never hands out the answers like that.
But maybe that’s not even the right question.
Maybe love isn’t the judgment you render—but a chance you take. Maybe it’s something you choose to do—over and over.
For yourself. And everyone else.
Because love isn’t fame. It’s not something other people bestow on you. It’s not something that comes from the outside.
Love is something you do.
Love is something you generate.
And loving other people really does turn out, in the end, to be a genuine way of loving yourself,”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“You can’t live your life bottling everything up. You need people, even if it’s only one or two, to believe”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“All we can do is put away our anger, and our blame, and our guns”—see what I did there?—“and try to make things better instead of worse. That’s the only answer there is.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“Remind myself that there is no saving of people—people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they're ready.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“You're just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“But I want companionship, the security of knowing someone has my back, the ability to comfort and be comforted. Friendship. Vacations. Maybe even kids one day. Someone solid. Predictable. A person who doesn’t need passion and sparks to build a lasting relationship. I don’t know that I’ll ever find that individual—and that makes me extraordinarily sad.”
― Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man