Maybe we should all decide we're going to meet the man of our dreams when we're thirty-seven. Then we'll stop squeezing into tight shirts and walking around half-naked and analyzing every encounter as future husband material. We’ll stop feeling the need to put on makeup to take out the trash just in case he's walking by. Maybe we should just assume that we'll meet our dream man at some future point, and stop driving ourselves crazy before then.

- Caren Lissner, Starting From Square Two

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open

- Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

- Chuck Palaniuk,Invisible Monsters

It's pathetic, how we can't live with the tihngs we can't understand. How if we can't explain something we'll just deny it.

- Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known

- Chuck Palaniuk,Invisible Monsters 

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. 

- Mignon McLaughlin ,The Neurotic's Notebook 

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin & walk around in it.

- Harper Lee,To Kill A Mockingbird

Life had gone on. It always did. That's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You couldn't stop it. You couldn't go back to the moments you wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.

- Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, & only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do & not, not some other way.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

- Alice Seabold, The Lovely Bones

Story of my life: I am so self-destructive, I turn solutions into problems. Everything I touch, I ruin. I'm Midas in reverse.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation 

Why did people say they were falling in love? Why didn't they step into love or slide into it like a baseball player heading for home? Was it the thrill, like jumping off a high dive, or the fear of not knowing how you might land?

- Diane Les Becquets, Love, Cajun Style

And I loved him, jesus how I loved him. It wasnt love of course, even I can see now that it was infatuation, but at the time it near enough killed me. Its so passionate, so intense, so painful, that even years afterward you still feel the hurt when you hear their name.

- Jane Green. Straight Talking

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

- Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

Nobody’s life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn’t be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?

- Cecilia Ahern, PS I Love You

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

- Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift 

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

- Mark Twain

Certain things, they should just stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway.

- JD Saligner, The Catcher in the Rye

Can he really love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire, all full of passion.

- Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

Love is when a person believes that he, she, or it can't live without some other he, she, or it. No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love, is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do

- Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

Keep looking up', Mama used to tell me. 'There's nothing on the ground but your feet.'

- Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

There is nothing to be done. Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind...

- Janet Finch, White Oleander 

If I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that are people starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they are upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't change the fact that you have what you have.

- Stephen Chobsky, The Perks of Being a Wallflo

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to chose where we come from, we can still chose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them

- Stephen Chobsky, The Perks of Being a Wallflo
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