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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.

—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why

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I wished I'd walked into my mother's open arms the few times she'd tried to pull me close, and pressed my face to her chest, letting my sad heart find solace there. But I hadn't. I wanted to be a help to her, not a burden, so I held back. And after a while, she stopped offering. She thought I was beyond that, when in fact I needed it now more than ever.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.

—Katie McGarry in  Dare You To

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Dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

—Philippa Gregory in The Other Boleyn Girl

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On the list of things that are the worst about life, missing chances will always be number one.

—Kevin Emerson in Carlos Is Gonna Get It

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I don't know how you say goodbye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.

—Laura Wiess in How It Ends

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I used to be nice, but nice was boring. Nice hadn't gotten me anywhere.

—Lisa Burstein in Pretty Amy

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

—George Bernard Shaw

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

—Jackie Mason

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We are the people our parents warned us about.

—Jimmy Buffett

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

—Russell Green

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

—Voltaire

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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

—Dame Edna Everage

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

—Blaise Pascal

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