Quotes About Jio

#1. The truth of the matter is that we always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Sarah Jio

#2. Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

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#3. You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don't. They never can. There is no perfect. There's just different. But different can be wonderful.

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#4. Love does not die. It lives.

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#5. Life is too short to worry about the consequences when you love someone as I love you.

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#6. My mom used to say that for every year you loved someone, it takes a month to recover.

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#7. There is something oddly therapeutic about trudging through marshy sand, the feeling of squishiness below the feet signaling to the brain that it's OK to just let go for a while.

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#8. When someone does a bad thing, a hurtful thing, it doesn't mean you stop loving them. You just change your course. You make adjustments. But love lives on.

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#9. You can never play a part in life, especially not in love.

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#10. I buttoned my sweater against the wind on my skin - winds of change.

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#11. Tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they're cut.

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#12. turning my gaze away from the kitchen to the reflection in the window. An old lady. I saw her every day, this woman, but her reflection never ceased to surprise me. When did I become her?

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#13. detours in the road. Because without them, this life

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#14. It's like I'm trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle, and everyone is hiding the pieces from me.

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#15. Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.

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#16. Set my pride aside in the name of preserving our sisterhood, because I cannot imagine a world where one can regard her sister as a stranger.

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#17. Whenever you're down on your luck, and when things aren't going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.

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#18. The beauty of the island [Bora Bora} wasn't limited to its turquoise waters or green hills. That was mere surface beauty. The real awe of the place was evident in its stories. There was one waiting beyond every curve of the shore.

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#19. It's hard to put into words. It's as much a feeling as it is the way your stomach flutters when you think of him. It's the feeling of being reached and reaching someone. It's the feeling of being sen by someone for who you really are and being adored for it. That, for me, is connection.

Sarah Jio

#20. Love, she thinks, is not meant for her.

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#21. All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

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#22. It is funny how our past comes back around to find us again.

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#23. She feels as if her heart may burst.

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#24. We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.

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#25. Most of the time, people don't mean to be rude; it's just their sadness showing through.

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#26. The Puget Sound is like a time machine, hiding things and then spewing them back onto its shores at the time and place of its choosing.

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#27. Everyone has a happy place, the scene that comes into view when you close your eyes and let your mind transport you to the dot on the globe where life is cozy, safe, warm.

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#28. So much for perfect love. Because you can blink your eyes and it can vanish, without explanation, leaving you with only your memories and your tears.

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#29. The only way to save bookstores is to keep children coming to them.

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#30. I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

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#31. Nerver underestimate the power of flowers to reach someone's soul.

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#32. People act out of character when they're in pain.

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#33. I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal
stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

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#34. The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

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#35. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

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#36. I've come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can't help who you love. You can't change who your heart chooses. I'm afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.

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#37. The city loves you when you're flying high and kicks you when you're down.

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#38. I wonder if there is a dark side to every great love story. With great love comes great hurt. I wonder if it is inevitable.

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#39. ... I'm no longer willing to let myself down.

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#40. I could smell garlic, butter, and wine - the world's most delicious flavor combination. It made me feel warm, like the first few sips of wine always do.

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#41. Brownie, have you ever met someone you just feel at home with?

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#42. Some of life's most beautiful things grow out of the darkest moments.

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#43. What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

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#44. If summer had a flavor, it was pink bubble gum.

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#45. I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch and cracked the spine. It had the feel of a book that hadn't been touched in decades, creaking, as if to say ahhh.

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