My special quotes

1. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

 2. "You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"

 3. "I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you."

4. "It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it."

5. "Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

6. "In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."

7. "In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.

In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it."

8. "Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it."

9. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."

10. "Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."

11. "Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."

12. "The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."

13. "You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind."

 14. "You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."

15. "Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?"

16. "He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever."

17. "You can't edit a blank page."

18. "I am Alice in Wonderland. Watch me fall."

19. "If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?"

20. "Things break all the time.

Day breaks, waves break, voices break.

Promises break.

Hearts break."