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“You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in charge of your sail.”
― Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
― Nina Simone

“Don’t make your presence known. Make your absence felt.”
― Colleen Hoover, Without Merit

“refuse to play travel agent for your ego trip.” “If”
― Kendall Ryan, Hitched: Volume One

“Tuqburni is used to describe the all-encompassing feeling of not being able to live without someone. Which is why the literal translation is, ‘You bury me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Without Merit

“There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind. The best kind wasn’t this soft, sweet thing of hearts and picnics. It wasn’t flowery and divine. Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly. You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you. But it was also never letting them make that choice, either.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“My grandma had told me once you couldn’t make someone love you or even like you, but you could sure as hell make someone put up with you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“The hearts I make are shattered, but whole. They’re kaleidoscopes that beam under the sun. They signify hope in love when you’ve lost it because, like love, you can look at a kaleidoscope a thousand different ways and find something new every time. Shattered or not, if you look carefully enough, you’ll find something beautiful in them, and all beautiful things are a little broken.”
― Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

“Real love stories never end.”
― Claire Contreras, Paper Hearts

“Life is short, and brutal, and painful, and it takes loved ones away from us as quickly as it brings them into our lives, but it’s also beautiful.”
― Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

“I’ve learned that life isn’t about the end, but about the chapters in between. The filling in that we do to get our stories told and how people react to it is what keeps us going.”
― Claire Contreras, Paper Hearts

“I don’t want to say that I feel complete when I’m with him— because I’m complete without him— but when I’m with him I feel like a better version of myself.”
― Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

“I'm not saying I hate you right now; I'm saying that if I had a knife in my hand, you would be bleeding.”
― Claire Contreras, Paper Hearts

“sometimes in order to move forward you have to let go of the past, even if it hurts. Especially if it hurts,”
― Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

“It’s a heart. They always break at some point. Sooner or later someone will come along and shatter it anyway—might as well be you.”
― Claire Contreras, Kaleidoscope Hearts

“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I feel like everyone fakes who they are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Until he comes back for me, I’m just going to keep pretending to be okay. I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Some people . . . they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“My favorite part about cooking is drinking red wine while I do it.”
― Claire Contreras, There is No Light in Darkness

“I broke his heart, but he tore mine into a million pieces. Even if I wanted to piece it back together, I would never find them all because he would always be holding some.”
― Claire Contreras, There is No Light in Darkness

“Love always tries, and I never stopped.”
― Claire Contreras, Darkness Before Dawn