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50 quotes
American writer
“the truth about forever is that it is happening right now”
"The best gifts come from the heart, not the store."
on Love
"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."
on Courage
"What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."
on Resilience
"The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect."
on Wisdom
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
"I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough."
on Life
"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."
"If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way"
on Inspirational
"As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real"
on Philosophy
"That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are"
"Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone."
"The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever."
"If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here."
"But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of."
"I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting."
"With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never."
"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."
"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."
"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."
on Freedom
"You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together."
on Relationships
