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I thought it would all fall into place. I've changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.

—Mhairi McFarlane in You Had Me At Hello

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I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe

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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild Rose

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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

—Leigh Bardugo in Ruin and Rising

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Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

—Nicholas Sparks in A Walk to Remember

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I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Wait for You

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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

—Jonathan Tropper in One Last Thing Before I Go

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

—Winston Churchill

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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

—Peter Borden

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

—Vince Lombardi

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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