You would think after the rejection I've been dealt in my life that I'd be used to it. But it doesn't get easier. Not really. It makes you cautious. It makes you careful not to get your hopes up.

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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She was too good for me. I'd already figured this out, but now I knew how undeserving I was.

—Abbi Glines in Because of Low

One day I know I'll be moving on, but I fear you'll always be right there holding a piece of my heart that'll never belong to me. And I'll live my life, find reasons to smile so everyone will always think that you didn't shake me and totally break me. They'll never know I'll never be free.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

I have found that when you love someone, you can forgive just about anything. Eventually.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

Some days I imagined getting on a bus and leaving this town behind. The memories weren't good. At least most of them weren't.

—Abbi Glines in Because of Low

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I think they'd be proud of the strong person you've become. I think they'd be proud that although you've been through more grief and loss than one person deserves, you're still finding reasons to smile.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

—Thomas H. Huxley

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Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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Rejection, though—it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

—Steve Maraboli

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It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] .… I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all.

—Thomas Merton

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You would think after the rejection I've been dealt in my life that I'd be used to it. But it doesn't get easier. Not really. It makes you cautious. It makes you careful not to get your hopes up.

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