No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

—Mignon McLaughlin

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

—Mignon McLaughlin

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

—Mignon McLaughlin

I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. Shes the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

—Sophie Kinsella in I've Got Your Number

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

—Iris Murdoch

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

—Vernon Howard

I want a new past, new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

—Isaac Marion in Warm Bodies

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline