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“You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Love just makes everything else in life easier to bear. It’s like having an army on your side. But love itself isn’t easy. Most people have to fight for it, they fight to keep it. Love is a war, and half the time you’re battling your own fucking self.”
― Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You

“The pain of losing doesn't get less with each person I lose. But I have the wisdom of knowing the pain isn't forever. That fades. The memories stay. And the love isn't going anywhere.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“People tried to force me to feel better. But the only things that worked were time and distraction. Distract yourself. Stay busy. Count marshmallows, study frogs, whatever it takes. Time heals all wounds. It just does.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“When we met, we were two injured souls. But keeping the real out of our lives for fear of what we might find. But nothing could have kept us apart. I never believed in destiny. Thought that was a bunch of crap for people who read too many books. Until you.”
― Vi Keeland, Worth the Fight

“Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Experience is the best teacher.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“You've already made me cry countless times." I raised my middle finger to him slowly, and asked, "Do you know what this is?" I took my middle finger and patted the corner of my eye with it. "It's me, wiping away the last tear you'll ever get.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“Happy people don't wear all black.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“But at the end of the day", she says, and puts her hand outside the open window, letting the wind pass through her fingers, "being myself is enough. I'm enough.”
― Christina Lauren, Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

“But it was a mistake thinking of that as an end. There is no end. Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“It bothers me. There’s a stigma, especially for guys. Especially for guys who are about to hit thirty. It’s not that I want to be a . . . you know . . .�� He can’t bring himself to verbalize it. “But it’s hard to meet people when you have social anxiety as bad as I do. I panic. Or I want to say one thing, be a certain way, but it gets all tangled up on its way out of my mouth. A pumpkin trying to be flowers and coming off like a cactus. It’s frustrating.

“You’re much more flowers than you are cactus,�� I tell him, meaning every word. I hope he believes it. “But for what it’s worth, pumpkins are the best.”
― Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy