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“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”
― 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

“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes. That was what Atlas was telling me when he said “I love you.” He was letting me know that I was the biggest wave he’d ever come across. And I brought so much with me that my impressions would always be there, even when the tide rolled out.”
― 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

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you’re a participant.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds. How is that not a miracle?”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“In destroying ourselves, we also learn to create ourselves.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Knowing that something bad is going to happen, whether you want it to or not, to the point that you just want it to happen so you can stop dreading it.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Unfortunately, sometimes the things we love can also kill us.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Maybe we are all inevitable.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“Like she’s singing away her grief, because words are not sufficient.
Mom, singing me to sleep. Hannah, singing to tell a story. Bev, singing away her panic attacks.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“I mean, does anybody read anymore?”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable