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“If you want to see it that way. I prefer to think it takes the right person to see the treasure inside someone else. You’re not useless or worthless to me. Or to anyone else who matters in your life. That’s my point.”

“This is all wrapping paper. It’s pretty. It draws your eye. But what you really want is underneath all that. Christmas would be pretty boring if all you had were piles of pretty wrapping paper.”

"The woods were a breathing thing. The way the wind whispered through newly budding trees. How the dry underbrush hissed across the floor, catching against shrubs and stacking up with half-moldering piles of fallen leaves."

"The only person you owe happiness to is yourself. Don’t throw it away on other people’s expectations and plans for you.”

"That’s all life does. Chews you up and spits you out. Get used to it.”

"Just like you’re allowed to have something that doesn’t need to be polished or innovated or improved. Sometimes, things are just right the way they are."

Really love this series, but this one was a bit disappointing.

"Sometimes living took far more courage"

"I knew better than to think a human being ever came before a conviction or powerful people with ulterior motives and deep pockets."

" I was exactly what my past had created. It happens, people get hurt and nobody stops their day or waits for you to catch up. Either you found your way or you got lost in the nightmares."

I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.

—Thomas A. Edison

"My regret was infinite. And that regret had made me lonely. Angry. It had changed me, twisted me into the man I was now. And now … now it was impossible to see a way back."

" The boy who I walked away from lived on in the wreckage of my heart, and I never stopped wishing things had been different. "

Judge less, listen more and love always.

"She had realized something over the recent months: it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered when tragedy struck. You had no pull; no power. You had no choice. There was nothing to gamble with; nothing to do to put the odds in your favor."

Starts with a very good quote:

'A secret's worth depends on the people from it must be kept.'
--- Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind

She thinks we’re only talking about a broken heart here, which would be bad enough. She doesn’t know what else I lost after Finn left, and how a part of me is still aching for everything that could have been.

I was going to fall apart, right there, right then—and they’d see precisely how ruined I was.

Thinking about it, it really was ridiculous how much pressure I put on myself to be perfect. No wonder I never measured up.

"The maybes could go on forever, Watson, but we both know that mystery is better than the truth. So why not live with the magic? Be a kid again and believe in the fantastical. Life is more fun with a little smoke and mirrors.”

“Books are medicine for the soul. They heal the eternal parts of a person.”

Hearts wanted what they wanted, with or without your say.

" Don’t have any doubts Don’t have any fears Because in the end It’s better to say too much Then not to say anything at all"