When you refuse to settle for less than the best, the best tends to track you down.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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The right one for you will move mountains to be with you—he won't hide behind them.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Love often doesn't make any sense at all. It likes to creep up on you when you're least expecting it, with the person you're least expecting it to be with. It climbs walls and crosses oceans to find you. When it's your time, love will track you down.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

The Bad Boy. This one will probably steal your heart in your early 20's, in those years when you're trying to figure out who you are and who you want to be, and discovering your wings seems to come with a side of rebellion. You'll think you can change him, but you can't. (And secretly, you won't want to, because if you did, he'd no longer be the boy who stole your heart.) He'll make you cry as much or more as he makes you laugh. Underneath it all, you suspect he has a heart of gold… and he probably does… but it will take years and many women after you to uncover it. Here's the thing about bad boys: In the end, they always walk away. But they don't leave you empty-handed. In their wake will be a girl who now knows what she wants out of love and what she won't ever again stand for. And she's finally learned how to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to anyone who doesn't meet that standard.

—Mandy Hale in Beautiful Uncertainty

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While being married is about becoming the wife you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the woman you were born to be.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

—Adela Rogers St. Johns

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Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.

—Julia Quinn in With Love

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Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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