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“It’s the greatest revenge to be happy. To have a good life.”

- Yours Truly, Abby Jimenez

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Don’t wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don’t always have the time we think we have.

Sylvain Reynard

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“Love can’t cure mental illness.”

- Heartstopper

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“We knew, eventually, we would want different things. Then we started wanting them.”

- You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Maggie Smith

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“He can see nothing, but he can see her.”

- All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

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All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Paula Heller Garland

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““I’m just going to do my best and live under the assumption that if there are things in this life that we are supposed to do, if there are people in this world we are supposed to love, we’ll find them.””

— – Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.

Joshua Graham

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I met a guy. For the first time in my life I fell in love. I let down my walls. I found someone who makes me laugh. Who gives me hope. I love him with everything I have in me.

Abbi Glines

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“Beware the story that teaches you that you are weak: beware the story that teaches you to pour yourself into another’s hands. It will not lead you anywhere you wish to go.”

- Anonymous Sex

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“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”

— Margaret Atwood

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“You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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“It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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“If I have learned anything over this last year it’s that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn’t work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.”

— T.S. Krupa

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“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

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“Right then, I wanted to go back in time and relive every moment with him. One more secret smile, one more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

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“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”

— Bob Goff