Bibliophile

“You can’t put a price on peace of mind.”

“After loving someone you couldn’t depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.”

“If we all gave up on the things we love when it gets hard, it’d be a terrible world.”

“You can’t patch up someone forgetting about you. For the rest of your life you’ll always be worrying that they’ll forget about you the same way they did before. You’ll always know that they’d be a hundred percent fine without you but you wouldn’t be a hundred percent fine without them.”

“Part of being in love with someone is knowing that their happiness is more important than any transitory dream that we might have conjured up, for just a moment”

“You see, beauty is all in the eye of the beholder. Some people will think you’re lovely no matter how much you doll yourself up. Others will think you’re hideous. It doesn’t matter who you are. It’s just a fact of life. So, honestly, the only opinion that really matters is your own. And I say…as long as you feel pretty, you will be. When you take out special time each morning to beautify yourself, it’s just easier to feel that way.”

“He let me go and that, more than anything, stabbed the hardest.”

“A person can’t confidently proclaim what they would have done or how they would have felt in a situation they’ve never been in.”

“No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.”

“It’s funny how you can be so happy with someone and love them so much, it creates an underlying sense of fear in you that you never knew before them. The fear of losing them. The fear of them getting hurt.”

“The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. One can exist without the other.”

“People can’t always control who their circumstances turn them into.”

“You’ll cry tonight. In bed. That’s when it’ll hurt the most. When you’re alone.”

“Some people were destined to be together and when you found your soul mate, surely waking up every day to that person would be a joy not a chore.”

“Sometimes you wait for your dreams to come true, but sometimes the dream is just a fantasy, when in the real world there are things or people who could make you happier than any of your wildest dreams ever could.”

“The grief is different when you lose a lifelong friend than to losing a lover. It taints you differently, you carry the scars in a different way, though the pain you are feeling is still the same. It never really goes away, it just becomes easier to deal with.”

“Some of us were lucky to find love once in our lives.”