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101 " Until he comes back for me, I’m just going to keep pretending to be okay. I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water. "
― Colleen Hoover , It Ends with Us
102 " I am a brave and bold businesswoman with zero fucks to give for men in scrubs. "
103 " You warned me. You said one time with you wouldn’t be enough. You said you were like a drug. But you failed to tell me you were the most addictive kind. "
104 " You’re the most important part of my life, Lily. I want to be what brings you happiness. Not what causes you to hurt. "
105 " Do you have any idea how many doors I’ve knocked on to find you? "
106 " People say that teenagers don’t know how to love like an adult. Part of me believes that, but I’m not an adult and so I have nothing to compare it to. But I do believe it’s probably different. I’m sure there’s more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There’s probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person’s life, I know that love still has to weigh the same. You feel that weight on your shoulders and in your stomach and on your heart no matter how old you are. "
107 " And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed. "
108 " My heart is pounding like it wants out. I wish I could give it a way out. I’d set the mother-fucker free right now if I could. "
109 " I feel like everyone fakes who they are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others "
110 " The last thing you want to do is lose sight of your limit. Please don’t allow that to happen..... We all have a limit. What we’re willing to put up with before we break. "
111 " I smile, loving how his words feel against my skin. Inside my heart. "
112 " But then this morning I had to tell him goodbye. And he held me and kissed me so much, I thought I might die if he let go.But I didn't die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing.Just barely. "
113 " A happy Atlas was near mind-blowing. It made me want to uncover every single thing about this world that he likes and give it all to him. "
114 " sometimes—not very often at all, actually—a voice will penetrate past my ears and reverberate straight down through my body. "
115 " When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming""You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore "
116 " We’re just alike,... Plants and humans. Plants need to be loved the right way in order tosurvive. So do humans. We rely on our parents from birth to love us enough to keep us alive. And if ourparents show us the right kind of love, we turn out as better humans overall. But if we’reneglected . . we’re neglected, we end up homeless and incapable of anything meaningful "
117 " Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming "
118 " Lily. Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. "
119 " Of course I want to succeed, but at this point I’m not even sure if that matters. I had a dream and I busted my ass to make it come true. Whatever happens after today is just icing on the cake. "
120 " I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. “It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us. "