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“I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open. Too much clutter on the desktop. There is a metaphorical spinning rainbow wheel inside me. Disabling me. And if only I could find a way to switch off some of the frames, if only I could drag some of the clutter into the trash, then I would be fine. But which frame would I choose, when they all seem so essential? How can I stop my mind being overloaded when the world is overloaded? We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up thinking about everything. We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“You can't make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That's the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“In some ways, life was less complicated back then. More difficult in a lot of ways, but less complicated.”
― Samantha Young, A Cosmic Kind of Love

“I have a fatal flaw.
I like to think we all do. Or at least that makes it easier for me when I'm writing -building my heroines and heroes up around this one self-sabotaging trait, hinging everything that happens to them on a specific characteristic: the thing they learned to do to protect themselves and can´t let go of, even when it stops serving them.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Maybe, for example, you didn’t have much control over your life as a kid. So, to avoid disappointment, you learned never to ask yourself what you truly wanted. And it worked for a long time. Only now, upon realizing you didn’t get what you didn’t know you wanted, you’re barreling down the highway in a midlife-crisis-mobile with a suitcase full of cash and a man named Stan in your trunk.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“It was just a story, and when one gaping plot hole appeared, the whole thing unraveled. That's how stories work.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I would have to find other coping mechanisms. Like ... nature.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“It’s always harder to write when you have to. It’s like . . . the pressure turns it into a job, like anything else, and you might as well be selling insurance. The story suddenly loses any urgency to be told.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“It's because she knows when to not give up." Roy murmurs quietly. I frown. "What?" "Calla. She always gets what she wants because she knows when to not give up." Roy peers over his shoulder, his shrewd eyes meeting mine. "Maybe you should take a page out of her book this time.”
― K.A. Tucker, Running Wild

“It’s hard to love someone without restraint. To give yourself over to the swell and pull of it without fear of what might happen. I think it’s only natural to hold a part of yourself back and protect what you can. But it’s hard to keep yourself from giving in too. Layla is right. These past nine years I’ve buried every glimpse of strong feeling with denial, yearning and a sprinkle of deliberate misunderstanding”
― B K Borison, Lovelight Farms

“If you can’t worry about losing something you find precious, it probably isn’t all that valuable to you in the first place.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“I know this is probably hell for you, but you can count to three hundred and then push me off”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“People think doing the right thing is easy, but it’s not. The right thing is hardly ever convenient.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“I don’t know where this marshmallow filling inside you is coming from, but I’m all about it”
― Mariana zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“Romance isn't gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, there's nothing wrong with that, but in the end,
romance isn't about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed.”
― Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

“Romance isn't gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, there's nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn't about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed[ . . . ].It's about elevating stories of joy above stories of pain. It is about seeing yourself as the main character in a very interesting--or maybe even quiet--life that is entirely yours to control. It is, my friends, the fantasy of significance.”
― Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

“I dreamed about being different, but not like the way I was different in my real life where people weren't sure how to handle me. I wanted to be the kind of different that people treasured.”
― Lauren H. Mae, Wish Lists & Road Trips

“Please don't tone yourself down”
― Lauren H. Mae, Wish Lists & Road Trips

“Life is about finding the chewy center inside all the hard”
― Lauren H. Mae, Wish Lists & Road Trips

“I'd gladly spend my days dizzy from following whim my heart led me on rather than locked into another thing I would grow to resent.”
― Lauren H. Mae, Wish Lists & Road Trips

“It’s one thing to be brilliant, but to be brilliant without opportunity – that was something else. If Mozart had been born to a poor family in Bombay instead of a cultured one in Salzburg, would he have composed Symphony no. 36 in C? Not a chance.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Whenever you start doubting yourself,” she said, turning back to the audience, “whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change – and change is what we’re chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeon hole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladies. Design you own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what you will change. And then get started.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others' opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what YOU will change. And then get started.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun,”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Because while musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren’t. And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special - it’s just annoying.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Humans need reassurance, they need to know others survived in hard times. And unlike other species which do a better job of learning from their mistakes, humans require constant threats and reminders to be nice.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“I'm on vacation. Vacations always end. It's the very fact that it's finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn't be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“And that's how it is in real life too. You can love someone and still know the future you'd have with them wouldn't work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation