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#1. I had been brought up to believe that caring about people was a weakness, but loving Kyle didn't make me weak. It made me strong.

Kathleen Peacock

#2. When the doors are open big gusts of cold air sweep into the car, and suddenly it smells damp and earthly, that early smell that tells you all the snow and ice is melting and someday the sun will come out again.

And maybe it will, for some other girl.

Amanda Maciel

#3. If you had something to tie you back to your old life, would you keep it or destroy it?

Aimee Carter

#4. There wasn't a single part of me that didn't want him to stay. But I loved him enough to want what was best for him. Even if I wasn't it.

Kathleen Peacock

#5. The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

Moshe Dayan

#6. Don't add silence to your list of regrets.

Amanda Maciel

#7. My fight to live does not begin now. I have been fighting all my life, I just didn't know it.

Colleen Oakes

#8. It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.

Gordon Fee

#9. You only fall in love once, The rest are just endless rebounds.

Dawn Lanuza

#10. She was learning as quickly that what was right and what must happen weren't always the same thing.

Colleen Oakes

#11. You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.

Jennifer Gilmore

#12. I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Anne Lamott

#13. Remember how it takes your breath away- remember that this is how I felt the first time I saw you, and how I've felt every day since then, whenever I'm with you. This is my version of heaven.

Lydia Sharp

#14. Sometimes you stop seeing what the person is to the world. You only see what the person is to you.

Jennifer Gilmore

#15. Revenge probably tasted sweeter when it came with washboard abs.

Kathleen Peacock

#16. I look down and see my hands uncapping the pen, turning the notepad right-side up on my knees. My mouth is dry, my stomach is in knots, my life is over, my heart is broken.

I start to write.

Amanda Maciel

#17. Something about this small glimmer of happiness feels wrong, but I can't think about that. I just hold onto the glimmer, the shred. I let myself feel a tiny bit happy. Even though it kind of hurts.

Amanda Maciel

#18. Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Lisa Genova

#19. I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Susan B. Anthony