Sometimes letting go and forgiving others and yourself is the only way to move forward in life.

Sometimes when you love someone, the best thing you can do is keep them in the dark. Loving someone doesn't always mean telling them everything. It means knowing when it's best to keep your mouth shut and when it's best to open it.

—J.S. Cooper in The Other Side of Love

What we think we know and see is not always correct. And the winner isn't always the one that speaks the loudest or the most aggressively.

—J.S. Cooper in Keeping My Prince Charming

Love was no guarantee. Love came and went. Hearts were fickle and pain was real. Love was only good in the moment; it gave no promise for tomorrow.

—J.S. Cooper in The Promise of Tomorrow

When it comes to love, the truth can make you or break you. And sometimes it can do both.

—J.S. Cooper in After The Ex Games

The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

You get through it, you just never get over it.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

—Robert Benchley

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in The Virgin Suicides