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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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

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

—Simone Elkeles in Perfect Chemistry

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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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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Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.

—Abbi Glines in Fallen Too Far

The heart does not always make sense. It wants what it wants, even if what it desires does not want it back.

—Amber Lynn Natusch in Fractured

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There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.

—Kiera Cass in The Heir

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The Bad Boy. This one will probably steal your heart in your early 20's, in those years when you're trying to figure out who you are and who you want to be, and discovering your wings seems to come with a side of rebellion. You'll think you can change him, but you can't. (And secretly, you won't want to, because if you did, he'd no longer be the boy who stole your heart.) He'll make you cry as much or more as he makes you laugh. Underneath it all, you suspect he has a heart of gold… and he probably does… but it will take years and many women after you to uncover it. Here's the thing about bad boys: In the end, they always walk away. But they don't leave you empty-handed. In their wake will be a girl who now knows what she wants out of love and what she won't ever again stand for. And she's finally learned how to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to anyone who doesn't meet that standard.

—Mandy Hale in Beautiful Uncertainty

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Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts.… To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.

—Albert Schweitzer

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