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“That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say.

They think everyone else does too.”

—Khaled Hosseini

“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

—Salvador Plascencia

The People Of Paper

“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them?

But you’ll never meet them.

All right, so we do the best we can.

Granted.

But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”

—Charles Bukowski

“It’s simple.

Don’t start something you know you can’t finish and don’t make promises you can’t keep.

Be consistent, mean what you say, and let your actions speak for you.

All else will fall into place.”

—R.M. Drake

“Learn to say no without explaining yourself.”

—Unknown

“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things.

Choose her over everything.”

—Unknown

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche

“I know for some women, men are a household necessity; myself, I’d rather have a canary.”

Ruth Chatterton in Female (1933, dir. Michael Curtiz)

“When you love someone, you are sure.

You don’t need time to decide.

You don’t say stop and start over and over, like you’re playing some kind of sport.

You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.”

—Nina LaCour

“You have been chosen to carry the heaviest thing.”

—Claire Schwartz

“I don’t want to be a sweetheart.

I want to be the fucking love of your life.”

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You’re so calm and quiet, you never say.

But there are things inside you.

I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

—Tracy Chevalier

“Girls like her were born in a storm.

They have lightning in their souls.

Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”

—Nikita Gill

“Why do we close our eyes when we pray, when we cry, when we kiss, when we dream;

because the most beautiful things in our life are not seen but felt only by the heart.”

—Unknown

“She turned to me and whispered, don’t you just love it when you get so excited you forget to breathe? And the thought of her smiling eyes still makes me laugh.”

—Brian Andreas

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

—Jonathan Safran Foer

“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

—Andrea Gibson

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known- and even that is an understatement.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“..it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

—Cassandra Clare

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express.”

—Charlotte Brontë

“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Why are passions prettier in the dark? I hear mortals ask each other. Are demons allowed to fall in love? Children ask their mothers. Yes. We are. Before their very eyes. When we sweep through their lands, I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.”

—Nikita Gill