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I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.

Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this.

But it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

He could take happiness from her, but could he give any?

I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.

My memory is good for some things and not others.

But it was smell that carried memory.

Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Girls who wouldn't take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

She was bad at love. She loved too hard.

What business had she to try to capture life and light?

He'd given up blessings he hadn't been worthy of for the chance to be with her, and now he'd lost that, too.

My butt has specific requirements for pants.

Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There
could be joy in things that ended.

A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

He didn't want to go forward, but he always wanted to get another chance.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

I wondered if I was an error of God's planning that would be fixed at the end of my life.

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Live, laugh, love.
When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn't forget?

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

The gap between what we say and what we feel is so big and dark that sometimes I think I'll fall into it and just keep falling

He is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

Skinny girls have skinny minds

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.

Bridget saw chaos.

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

You remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

The world was full of death, full of sadness, full of people, full of people too broken to lean on.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

Remember: Pants=Love. Love your pals. Love yourself.

She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.

I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved - the two go together.

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.