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1 " What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing? "
― Gabrielle Zevin , In the Age of Love and Chocolate (Birthright, #3)
2 " Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs. "
3 " The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish. "
4 " He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you. "
5 " We are where we are. "
6 " I've thought a lot about it. The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken. "
7 " Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time. "
8 " You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually. "
9 " The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much. "
10 " But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it. "
11 " Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better. "
12 " I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself. "
13 " I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything. "
14 " Remember: you are as good as you are tomorrow. "
15 " So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word. "
16 " And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring. "
17 " Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe. "
18 " You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals. "
19 " Once I surrendered to it, all I tasted was the sweetness. "
20 " I believe when it is convenient for me to believe. "