A variety of quotes from books.

  • Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis -“What is the perfect gift for the person who makes me believe, really believe, that it is possible to work through things? That leaving is the last resort, not the first? I want to give him something big and unnecessary to properly thank him.” – Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
  • Best Friends by Martha Moody -“There’s this loony idea-American, Christian-that what you do doesn’t ultimately matter, that anything can be forgiven and redeemed. I don’t buy it. Nothing disappears, nothing is cancelled out. A stain in the wood, meat on the hands, a virus in the cells. There’s things don’t go away. In the end, imperfectly but largely, you reap what you sow. I think in my life that’s all I’ve learned. “- Best Friends by Martha Moody
  • Bookends by Jane Green -“‘it’s all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you’re avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?'” – Bookends by Jane Green
  • Catching Alice by Clare Naylor -“‘I want more from a relationship. I want a man who’ll prove he loves me, who’ll pursue me to the ends of the earth, woo me — maybe even send me flowers or a poem or two.'” – catching Alice by Clare Naylor
  • Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie -“‘The thing about love is, you don’t get to choose,’ Suze said, ‘you just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going “nyah, nyah gotcha,” and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.'” – Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
  • The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom -“People say they ‘find’ love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.” – The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • Fourplay by Jane Moore -“‘but the bottom line of why most people stay together is because, despite the occasional rocky patch, they love each other and enjoy each other’s company.'” – fourplay by jane moore
  • Girls Poker Night by Jill A. Davis -“i think it’s completely wonderful that he sees my flaws so easily and has no problem hammering on and on about them.” – Girls’ Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
  • He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo -“‘Doesn’t want to get married’ and ‘Doesn’t want to get married to me’ are very different things. Be sure about which category he falls under.” – He’s just not that into you by by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
  • Heat Seekers by Zane -“‘I’m kind of rusty in the relationship department. at least the real relationship department.'” – the heat seekers by Zane
  • In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner -“‘you don’t know what it was like to live in this house. you don’t know what it was like to spend years never being good enough. never being the first choice, never being the one anyone really wanted. never being able to put a foot right.'” – In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
  • It’s My F—ing Birthday by Merill Markoe -“I have often heard it said that the thing you want appears when you least expect it, after you have totally given up hope. But, deep in my heart, I can sense that I have not really given up hope. Which makes me wonder if my allowing hope to live is what is clogging up the plumbing. On the one hand, I think that maybe if I start to admit that ‘yes, I am in the Hole. I have finally given up hope,’ then that very admission will speed up the process of sending a healthy relationship my way. And on the other hand, I worry that the very act of forcing myself to prematurely give up hope in the name of speeding things up is in fact an act of hope. Either way I’m screwed.” – It’s My F—ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe
  • Less of a Stranger by Nora Roberts -“‘it’s just like losing someone you love. Even when you know it’s the best thing, it still hurts.'” – less of a stranger by Nora Roberts
  • Love The One You’re With by Emily Giffin -“He has painted me into a corner, created a layer of deceit between me and the people I love. Sure, it is a small secret in the scheme of things, but it is still a secret, and it will grow–multiply–if I return his call. So I simply won’t do it.” – Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin
  • Lovers & Dreamers by Nora Roberts -“No grief and despair, just turn the page and forget.” – Lovers & Dreamers by Nora Roberts
  • Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts -“No point in getting to the end of the road unless you’d enjoyed the journey.” – Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
  • Mr. Maybe by Jane Green -“‘you are the best person I’ve met in years, and if I’d met you in a year’s time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can’t give you what you need.'” – Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
  • My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle -“‘in my opinion, you can only say that love truly is love once you’re both dead, because it’s only then, once you’ve managed to go your entire lives with each other and there’s nowhere for you to go off to or anyone to go off with, that it finally becomes real. Anything else is more or less just infatuation.'” – My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
  • My Life by Isadora Duncan -“No woman has ever told the whole truth of her life.” – My Life by Isadora Duncan
  • Nights In Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks -“‘I went there to close a chapter in my life, hoping it would help me find my way. But it was you, I think, that I had been looking for all along. And it’s you who is with me now.'” – Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
  • The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks -“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.” – Nicholas Sparks, ‘The Notebook’
  • Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky -“Please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you.” – The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern -“‘Every time someone asks me that question, Sharon, I say, ‘I’m fine, thank you,’ but to be honest, I’m not. Do people really want to know how you feel when they ask how are you? Or are they just trying to be polite?’ Holly smiled. “The next time the woman across the road from my house says to me, ‘how are you?’ I’m going to say to her, ‘well, actually, I’m not very well at all, thank you. I’m feeling a bit depressed and lonely. Pissed off at the world. Envious of you and your perfect little family but not particularly envious of your husband for having to live with you.’ and then I’ll tell her about how I started a new job and met lots of new people and how I’m trying hard to pick myself up but that I’m now at a loss about what else to do. Then I’ll tell her how it pisses me off when everyone says time is a healer when at the same time they also say absence makes the heart grow fonder, which really confuses me because that means that the longer he’s gone the more I want him. I’ll tell her that nothing is healing at all and that every morning I wake up in my empty bed it feels like salt is being rubbed into those unhealing wounds.’ Holly took a deep breath. ‘and then I’ll tell her about how much I miss my husband and about how worthless my life seems without him. How uninterested I am in getting on with things without him, and I’ll explain how I feel like I’m just waiting for my world to end so that I can join him. She’ll probably just say, ‘oh that’s good,’ like she always does, kiss her husband goodbye, hop into her car, and drop her kids at school, go to work, make the dinner and eat the dinner, and go to bed with her husband and she’ll have it all done while I’m still trying to decide what color shirt to wear to work. What do you think?'” – PS, I LOVE YOU by Cecilia Ahern
  • Pink by Marilyn Griffin -“It was always good to know the exact moment your mind went bad in case anyone wanted to know.” – Pink by Marilyn Griffith
  • Promising Man (and about time too) by Elizabeth Young -“‘promises are like speed limits–made to be broken.'” – a promising man (and about time, too) by elizabeth young
  • Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin -“When you’re getting married you start thinking about all your big moments, and you were in all mine.” – Something Borrowed
  • Spygirl by Amy Gray -“‘for whatever reason, probably because I, like you, am a fucking romantic, and you’re smart and beautiful and funny and fun and I think I see something in you I want, I can’t turn away.'” – Spygirl by Amy Gray
  • Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner -“When you meet someone, you let them get to know you, let them get to care about you… then, and only then, did you roll out the red carpet so they could step over the tracks.” – Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner
  • Summer Sisters by Judy Blume -“What’s the point of thinking about how it’s going to end when it’s just the beginning?” – Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom -“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.” – Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • 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
  • The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks -“I just don’t seem to have an understanding of what it takes to make another’s heart start fluttering.” – The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

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