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“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“A half-truth is just a whole lie.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“If you can control your emotions, you can control anything.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Avoiding the bad means you risk avoiding the good, too, and I’d rather be hurt than never not feel this.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“My mother said the first boy—or man—is a crush.
You think you love them, but what you really love is how they make you feel. It’s not love. It’s lust. Lust for attention. Lust for danger. Lust to feel special. (...) The second is to learn about yourself. Your first crush has been crushed. You’re sad, but most of all, you’re angry. Angry enough to not let it happen again. (...) Love. When the lessons of your weakness with number one and your selfishness with number two sink in, and you find a medium. When you know who you are and you’re ready to welcome everything he is, and you’re not afraid anymore.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“People may live different realities, but the truth is always the same.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Because you’re still you, no matter where you go,” I retort.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“I might wish this change could’ve happened differently, but some of us don’t learn from the heat. We need the fire.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“I realize in this moment that the hardest part about ending an abusive relationship is that you aren’t necessarily putting an end to the bad moments. The bad moments still rear their ugly heads every now and then. When you end an abusive relationship, it’s the good moments you put an end to.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Living a life that isn’t meant for you is its own version of hell.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“In every story, there’s a hero and villain. Sometimes one person can be both.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“The past is always with you, whether you choose to think about it or not, whether you take responsibility for it or not. You carry the past with you because it transforms you. You can try to bury it and pretend it never happened, but that doesn’t work.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“He believed that the dead were already at peace. It was the living who suffered.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“When Joey stepped inside the bookstore, she took a long, deep inhale, and felt a genuine burst of joy. Every bookstore, everywhere, smelled the same. It smelled like home.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Things We Do in the Dark

“you had to act decisively and take the consequences. Grab life by the balls. My husband liked to tickle them with a feather and then wander away.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Some of you may hate it. Some of you will love it. If I made you feel something, then I’ve done my job.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“There were men you owned. There were men you borrowed. And then there were men you took. I would never let anyone take him”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Fine.” He dropped his hand from my chin. “Skirt up. Panties down. And if you feel the need to scream, don’t.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Act. Enjoy. Regret. Push away. Yearn. Obsess. Justify. Obsess. Turn against those who keep them from their addiction. Obsess. Act.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Don’t Be A, followed by a photo of a rooster and a lollipop.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Time didn’t necessarily make the pain disappear entirely, but it sanded the sharp edges.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“sometimes the dark is beautiful, and without it, we wouldn’t see the moon.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“Most things are just a matter of time,” he said. “It’s very difficult to believe when you’re in the midst of the pain.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“I know that she’s the bravest person I ever met and that she’d march straight into a fire rather than let someone else be burned.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“Never take anything wonderful for granted, no matter how much of it you have.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“You did not crawl out of that cage to live a timid life.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“I vowed never to forget. Forgetting helps for a while, but then it doesn’t.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“Women. What petty creatures they could be. So ruled by emotion.”
― Mia Sheridan, All the Little Raindrops

“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken