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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

“It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

“I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

“All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

“No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift of an illusion. We all layer them over our remembrances; the filters through which we want to see our lives.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“True love doesn’t always last,” I say. “It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“don’t think that true love means your only love.

I think true love means loving truly.

Loving purely. Loving wholly.

Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt . . . maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. It's about seeing yourself through someone's eyes and realizing there is plenty to like about yourself, plenty of reasons someone might hang on your every word.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“When you lose someone you love, it’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever feel better. That, one day, you’ll manage to be in a good mood simply because the weather is nice or the barista at the coffee shop on the corner remembered your order.

But it does happen.

If you’re patient and you work at it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves