I used to think that any man of mine had to live up to a list of my expectations. I was wrong. Love has no list.

—Rachel Gibson in Any Man of Mine

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I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

—Rachel Gibson in See Jane Score

I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don't really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn't.

—Rachel Gibson in True Confessions

When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be.

—Rachel Gibson in Tangled Up In You

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

—Rachel Gibson in True Confessions

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The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You're grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don't trust it.

—Katy Regnery

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There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.

—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk

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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

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I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

—Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans—you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

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