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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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

—Louise Erdrich in The Painted Drum

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Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed—its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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Well, you can't have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.

—Leila Sales in Past Perfect

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There are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.

—Molly McAdams in From Ashes

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My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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