I could not fall back in love with him. Doing so was like falling in love with a thunderstorm. Exciting and powerful, yes. Even beautiful. But violently tempered, unpredictable, and ultimately short-lived.

—Kristen Simmons

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About Kristen Simmons

Portrait of Kristen Simmons

Kristen Simmons (born June 5, 1984) is an author of young adult fiction. Her first published novel was Article 5, a dystopian novel about an America controlled by the "Moral Militia." Article 5 has been followed by two sequels: Breaking Point and Three.

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He was my anchor in the hurricane, yet at the same time, the hurricane itself, so that I nearly always felt safe and afraid simultaneously. There was nothing in the world as confusing and powerful as being close to him.

—Kristen Simmons in Article 5

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I remember who you are. Even if you forget.

—Kristen Simmons

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I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.

—Kristen Simmons in Breaking Point

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Someday we'll know why I wasn't meant for you.

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No relationship is ever perfect, but when you truly love each other… it doesn't have to be.

—Nick Spalding in Love…From Both Sides

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I've never met anyone that affects me the way you do. I feel like I could conquer the world, bench press a bus, and run a marathon when I'm with you. You make me feel alive and so happy I can't even think straight.

—Marie Coulson in Bound Together

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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.

—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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