Books Quotes
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can’t know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you’ve reached it.
Alice Munro
She always says she doesn’t believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five. She says women change so much in their twenties, they can’t possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.
Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience?
The Coming and Going of Strangers by Simon Van Booy
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When you look in the mirror, what do you want to see: yet another reminder of your hopeless attempt to be the girl of his dreams, or you? The answer should always be you.
Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby McDonald
The best revenge is living well without you.
Joyce Carol Oates
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W. Somerset Maugham
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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn’t look like what you wanted anymore.
Past Perfect by Leila Sales
Something had changed in me, even if I didn’t know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Still, that’s the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
If you let him go and he doesn’t come back to you, he wasn’t yours to begin with.
Return to Paradise by Simone Elkeles
I’m used to talking to him all the time, about the most meaningless stuff. To have him gone feels like a loss, an absence haunting me every day. Without him, there’s just the empty space that used to be filled with laughter and friendship and comfort. Can you really blame me for finding it so hard to let go?
Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby McDonald
see more Books, Break Up, General, Love, Still In Love
Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.
Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh