I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

Is that what you wanted? That I be gone for good, rather than just mad for a little while?

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

—Marcus Antonius

It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way—that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

—Aristotle

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

—Milton Friedman

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

—Edward Abbey