General Quotes
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
Incantation by Alice Hoffman
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it’s hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren’t always happy ones.
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever.
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they’re worse than guys sometimes. Except they’re all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each others backs. It’s seriously twisted.
The Jerk Magnet by Melody Carlson
I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here.
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love—that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, is this the same person I lost?
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
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I know that’s what people say—you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, you’ll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, I think you have to take them back.
Mercy by Jodi Picoult
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That’s what friends do: they notice things. They’re there for each other. They see what parents don’t.
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
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Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.
Giving Chase by Lauren Dane
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh
When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure
The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you’re doing it
It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta