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You have to seek out situations that make you uncomfortable and then throw yourself into them.

—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse

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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

—Al Capone

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I don't want to forget any of this. The way he's looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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I've never wanted to marry. Anyone who knows me will tell you that. When I was little, I never liked the stories about princesses waiting to be rescued. I never wished on falling stars, or pulled the petals off daisies while reciting 'he loves me, he loves me not.

—Lisa Kleypas in Devil in Spring

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One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It's the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours.

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough.

—Julie Murphy in Dumplin

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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When you really want something, you will find a way. When you don't really want something, you'll find an excuse.

—Rachel Hollis in Wash Your Face

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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

—George Bernard Shaw

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I used to feel like I was on the top of the world. Then one day, I noticed that it felt like I was no longer on the top of the world. I was just floating around inside of it. And then eventually, it felt like the world was on top of me.

—Colleen Hoover in Without Merit

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I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing.

—Nicola Yoon in Everything

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What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn't want to leave? What then? But wouldn't it be great if I loved it? Isn't that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

—Havelock Ellis

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It doesn't matter what happens as long as the right person gets the blame.

—Walter Kirn

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