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1 " Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore. "
― Leila Sales , Past Perfect
2 " What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it. "
3 " If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people. "
4 " When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them. "
5 " Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it. "
6 " I have a theoryd that the first person you fall for creates a model for how you approach relationships going forward. Like, it frames how you'll look at every person who you date after that. "
7 " Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about. "
8 " Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him. "
9 " United we stand, divided we fallJust watch us as we beat ya’ll.You say ‘brother against brother’?Well, my brother screwed your motherAnd she liked it!We’ll kick your shins and break your knee’Cause all you got is Robert E. Lee.Farbs! "
10 " We shouldn't be doing this." Dan broke the silence, his voice low. "We would both get in trouble." He stood up. "Let's go back.""We shouldn't be doing what?" I scrambled to my feet. "What exactly are we doing?""This.""You mean consorting?""Sure, consorting. Cavorting. Carousing." He paused to take a deep breath."Kissing." Then he leaned in and pressed his mouth to mine. "
11 " A boy once told me that love without heartbreak is just a pretty myth. "
12 " Also, he was kind of cute. Not really, of course, since he was the enemy, and the enemy cannot possibly be cute. He was only cute enough to make me wish I could free my hands so that I could fix my hair. I mean, fix my hair, then punch him in the face, and then run. "
13 " You will learn to love again "
14 " Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. "
15 " What do you think, Elizabeth?" Dad turned to me."Um, my name's still Chelsea. Remember, you named me that yourself? When I was born? "
16 " Vanilla and vanilla bean are two different flavors, and vanilla bean is a much more intense experience "
17 " . . . and even the worst ice cream is better than no ice cream. "
18 " Fiona says that I have trouble moving on. That I cling to the past...I knew that I would miss it. I'd miss the way my life used to be when I worked there. I always miss the way my life used to be, and the best way to prevent that is to not change my life very much. "
19 " Don't get me wrong, I love my parents and all. But my father and I have the sort of loving relationship in which, whenever he says more than one sentence in a a row to me, I want to stab myself in the heart with a a recently formed silver knife. "
20 " What do you mean, 'what happened to my Redcoat boy'?" Fiona asked, swirling her spoon around her dish."I mean, where did he go?""He went..." Fiona gazed off into the distance and shook her head slightly." He went the way of all things.""You mean he died?"Her focus snapped back to me. "No.""Well, you made it sound like he died.""I just meant that he went wherever it is that boys go when they go." She waved a hand. "Into the ether. Into the great beyond.""It's still sounding like he died. Did you at least get his number? "
