Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.

Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

—Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?

—Jill Shalvis in  Second Chance Summer

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

—Henry Drummond

Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

—Susanna Kearsley in The Rose Garden

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

—George Bernard Shaw

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Everyone lets you down, it’s a fact of life. The key is to know when they’re doing it because they don’t care enough to try not to.

—Kelley York in Hushed