Beth Harbison Quotes

#1. Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.

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#2. Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been

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#3. Who they are today isn't who they were then.

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#4. So your final assignment is a simple one but it's going to take forever: be happy. No matter what it takes. No matter how embarrassing it might be sometimes, no matter who or what you might have to forgive, no matter how hideous the color of the hat that makes you smile, be happy.

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#5. We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

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#6. Avocados are one of my weaknesses. Creamy but firm, even plain, they call margaritas, chips, and good times to mind. Fortunately, they are so nutritious that the fat content is pretty much canceled out.

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#7. She would forever remember how warm & secure he made her feel. How could she ever live without that?

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#8. I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.

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#9. Now he would always be part of her. She just didn't know it yet.

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#10. The only thing here was a long gray ribbon of road, stretched like tape stuck by a toddler onto a rolling carpet of green hills under a huge arch of blue sky. This is Virginia. My Virginia, anyway.

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#11. I think its better to do whatever is going to make you feel the most peaceful and happy. - Shoe Addicts Anonymous

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#12. I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.

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#13. Trust that things do work out by themselves sometimes.

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#14. God forbid, if something happened & she lost him for good, she would give up anything to have him back. Anything & everything.

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#15. My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here.

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#16. He was the only person I ever met whose soul I could clearly see in his eyes. And I had more faith in him than I've ever had in another human being.

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#17. I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.

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#18. She couldn't have cared less when she got home or if she ever got home. All that mattered was this moment & that this moment continues.

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#19. She'd know the smell of him, the taste of him, the feel of him anywhere.

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#20. I put a big slab of butter into the pan. The Olekseis didn't give one damn about health, which made them refreshing to cook for, and my motto was pretty much, 'When in doubt, add butter.'
Right now, I was definitely in doubt.
I added more butter.

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#21. I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.

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#22. I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.

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#23. I missed the idea of him more than he himself.

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#24. I found myself teetering on the edge of Uh-oh, and looking straight down the barrel of Oh, shit.

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#25. Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing
it can happen to anyone.
But it doesn't happen to everyone.
Even though everyone, deep down, wants it.
Anyway, I do.

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#26. I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.

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#27. That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was the one who couldn't stand change.

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#28. She thought about Cheryl's contention that this was young love, and about how she'd feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn't even know now. The thought made her want to cry.

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#29. What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had.

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#30. And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.

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#31. I had to work out that he was always going to break my heart as long as I was willing to let him in.

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#32. She pulled up to the garage in front of Nordstrom (no matter where she was going in the mall, she liked to enter through Nordstrom)

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#33. Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls.
Quinn

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#34. Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

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