How could I let a love go—one I'd been holding onto for so long—one that felt like home? It's not easy to let go of the pieces, even though they're the reason for my pain.

—Rachel Van Dyken

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I was pretty sure that's how you know you're falling for someone—when you want the good and bad, when you want everything, regardless of how horrible, how dark. You want it all, because at the end of the day, it's still them.

—Rachel Van Dyken

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Watching someone you love…die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It's like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it's your reality, it's like watching sunlight fade from the sky, like watching death suck the one you love dry, and being powerless to stop it. You may as well try to stop the waves from rolling in, or the sun from rising. In the end, the waves will roll, the sun will set, and death will come. The only thing you have a choice in? How you deal with it when it does.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin

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I guess that’s what makes life special. It’s unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Tear

It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead.

—Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

—Willem de Kooning

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Time heals. It's slow and it's painful but it works. Talking helps, going out with other people, seeing friends. She'll be like a book you read long ago. If you trust that if it's meant to be then it'll be again, and if it's not you will wake up one day and realize that you hadn't even thought of her once. And then you'll be free.

—Endless Love (2014)

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You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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Do not run toward pain, but do not run from it, either. Pain is your guide. Pain is what guides a person in every serious undertaking. Unless an aching longing and passion arises in someone to get or achieve something, he will never get or achieve it.

—Andrew Harvey

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Life is pain. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

—William Goldman

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