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"Love just doesn't happen to girls like me; girls who build their hopes on an intricate web of day dreams. The truth is that everyone has issues and maybe building up a fake, perfect man in my mind was my biggest issue of all. I've been walking around with the ghost of my magic man. He's been haunting me, keeping me from a world of opportunities that were right in front of me..." - Beauty & the Briefcase

"i like to take these long walks, mostly at night and look up at all the darkened windows. i just wonder what peoples lives are like and what they're dreaming about.. i like to see peoples' faces when they are just falling in love or making up from a fight or even if they are just grieving... there's something beautiful about a person's face at that moment. . . " -bed of roses

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." - Audrey Hepburn

“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in [...]

“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

“‘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

“Sisterhood is the essence of all the wisdom of the ages, distilled into a single word. You cannot see sisterhood, neither can you hear it nor taste it. But you can feel it a hundred times a day. It is a pat on the back, a smile of encouragement. It’s someone to share with, to [...]

“I went far and now I see that the only one I needed was me.” –  Hilary Duff, “the last song”

“I’m smarter than this and know better than this.” –  Hilary Duff, “danger”

“When somebody’s trying to love me completely I get scared.” –  Hilary Duff, “burned”