I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

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About Simone Elkeles

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Simone Elkeles is an American author known for the teen romance Perfect Chemistry trilogy and How To Ruin trilogy. She is a New York Times Bestselling young adult author. Elkeles won the 2010 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance from the Romance Writers of America for her book Perfect...

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He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

He took a piece of my heart, but that doesn't mean my life has to be on hold. I can't keep running after ghosts.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

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I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn't.

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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More quotations tagged with “happiness”

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them.

—Penelope Douglas in Rival

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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

—Ally Condie in Matched

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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Whatever the philosophers may say, it remains true that, from the first hour of man's waking consciousness until that consciousness ceases, his most ardent desire is to be happy, and that the moment of his most profound regret is when he becomes convinced that on this earth perfect happiness cannot be found.

—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life

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