Kelly Quindlen Quotes

#1. Your heart will never ask your permission to love.

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#2. No one ever told me that it might be different. That it would be okay to be different.

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#3. It's just us, right?'
Hannah walks to her. She touches her cheek and finds her eyes. There is a desperate light hanging on her pupils. A flicker of passion, a flicker of shame.
'It's just us.

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#4. Hannah stomps, buries, suffocates, wishes for death. "Yeah," she says. "I'm good.

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#5. We have to take ownership for our words. Words are powerful. They can be devastating. If your words carry hate--if they shame others, if they make them doubt that they are loved--Hannah, you don't want to own words like that.

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#6. She sees herself, and she does not look away.

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#7. I can tell you that I believe - that the human heart's mysterious ability to love others is never wrong. Your heart will never ask your permission to love. It's going to love whomever it was made to love, and the best thing you can do is follow it.

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#8. Love ultimately wins, Hannah. Love ultimately saves.

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