“Because you’re my best friend, you’re on a wild ride, and I figure you’re either going to need someone to scream in the seat beside you, or hold your hand while you puke.” – A Modern Witch by Debora Geary

“‘Am I your boyfriend?’ is the kind of question a nine-year-old asks another nine-year-old. It had no place in a sophisticated relationship. I knew the rules — I was meant to be cool and relaxed, laid-back and casual. At first maybe we’d ‘see’ each other (which meant that she’d still ‘see’ other people), then maybe we’d date (which would mean that she wouldn’t see other people even though she might want to), and then finally we’d be boyfriend and girlfriend (by which time she wouldn’t want to see other people because she’d be happy with me).” – My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

“Nobody’s life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn’t be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?” – PS, I LOVE YOU by Cecilia Ahern

“‘Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.’” – Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

“As for right now, I’m lost. A map, any map, would be greatly appreciated. I’m not the first lost person to feel this way. Lost people just want a way out; they’ll follow any foolish trail.” – Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

“‘You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.’” – Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

“I don’t think I emerged from the marriage much different. A little sadder, maybe a little more bitter, but not essentially changed. It was years later, when I was a practicing doctor, single again, but this time with a new baby, that Mark Petrello made his difference in my life. At that earlier time, I realized only that I’d experienced one of those disastrous marriages people refuse to talk about.” – Best Friends by Martha Moody

“As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.” – Mitch Albom, ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’

“You can fill a lifetime with if-onlys.. or you can get on with it.” – Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

“I am filled with what can only be described as relief. Relief that I got to this place, that this is my life.” – Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

“I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man, with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. ” – Nicholas Sparks, ‘The Notebook’

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

“From early childhood on, I was haunted by the feeling that no one could hear me.” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“And now I was proving that apparently I had learned no lesson at all about making bad, spontaneous, emotionally based decisions.” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘It’s just that I’m so tired of everybody throwing up their hands every time a relationship hits a rough patch,’ I said. ‘I did it in both my marriages, and I swore I wouldn’t do it again.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘There’s so much I wanted to give you. But I just couldn’t.’ ‘What the fuck does that mean?’ I screamed at him as he closed the door behind him. ‘is that some kind of bullshit for people without a grid?’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘A relationship with the opposite sex is like buying a new American car,’ he said, mixing paint. ‘It starts out looking great, but it only keeps going for about two and a half years. Then you spend the next two and a half years trying to restore it.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘Well, there’s two kinds of peeing,’ he said.  ’There’s regular peeing, because you have to pee.  And then there’s auxiliary competitive peeing.  For acquiring an empire.  I’m all about the real estate.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘As a language purist, I can’t bring myself to say ‘grande latte,’ knowing that the rest of my sentence is going to be in English.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘So that jack-off goes with you to hold your hand? Unless he’s gay, he just wants to fuck you. No straight guy acts like that without a motive.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘And if none of this links to anything in you, well … I think you don’t know who I am. And that makes me think I’m just waiting around to be surprised that you’ve decided it’s time for you to get out of here. Again.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘I’m not into bullshit clichés like dying.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘It’s not the truth. The only truth is that love is hard and sometimes people need a little help.” – Pink by Marilyn Griffith

“It was always good to know the exact moment your mind went bad in case anyone wanted to know.” – Pink by Marilyn Griffith

“‘You don’t have to know the right way, the perfect way to do something.  You just try it with your heart.  And it works.’” – <em>Pink</em> by Marilyn Griffith

“If he’d loved her so much, why had he waited so long to tell her?” – Pink by Marilyn Griffith

“People forget how much they love each other sometimes, but they can make it right again.” – <em>Pink</em> by Marilyn Griffith

“there were no dreams left to her. No hope. No love.” – Lovers & Dreamers by Nora Roberts

“No point in getting to the end of the road unless you’d enjoyed the journey.” – Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts

“In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek.” – Nicholas Sparks, ‘Message in a Bottle’