We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down—it’s time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it—it’s time to let go.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

—Tom Robbins

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

—Robertson Davies

No matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there’s a trigger for every memory.

—Calia Read in Breaking the Wrong

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us.

—Suzanne Finnamore in Otherwise Engaged