It was sad that any devotion or encouragement I got from someone made me emotional. But it was rare.

About Abbi Glines

Abbi Glines (Abigail Glines) is an American New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling novelist. Her new-adult fiction titled Fallen Too Far was self-published on eBook and paperback in 2012.

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You made bad choices and you got on the wrong path but you were also strong enough to get off that path and find one that would take you somewhere in life.

—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers

I wasn't enough. You needed more. I can't live with that. Don't you see? I can't live knowing you touched someone else. That you wanted someone else. I only ever wanted you.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

Sometimes you have to trust that you're worth it and you have to fight for what you want.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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I'm done with trying to make people care about me. I shouldn't have to work so hard to get those that I love to love me back. No one else has to try so damn hard. No one. Just me.

—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers

The world wanted to call you a loser but you were so much stronger than they realized. You fought back. You grabbed the life you wanted and you fought for it. Even when the rest of the world didn't think you'd make anything of yourself. You proved them wrong.

—Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."… I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

—David Rockefeller

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When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.

—Jim Geoghan in Light Sensitive

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Don't apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

—Kate Reid

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