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35 quotes
American author
“Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”
"You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off."
on Life
"Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong."
"I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown."
on Courage
"There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things."
on Philosophy
"People don't get to choose who they fall in love with. The only get to choose who they stay in love with."
on Love
"Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together."
"You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else."
on Identity
"Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future."
"I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting."
"I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top."
"Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective"
"people don't get to choose who they fell in love with. they only get to choose who they stay in love with.."
"and that's where love finds you... in the tragedies."
"Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it."
on Humor
"Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable."
"Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world."
on Wisdom
"Love is not found, love finds."
"When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings."
on Emotions
"I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now."
on Inspirational
"Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break."
