Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.
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Do you want me to be all gl... STEPHENIE MEYER Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. ... VERONICA ROTH The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everythi... DAVID LEVITHAN Wake up. If your eyes are sleeping then wipe them gently. You need to be awake for... KAMAND KOJOURI Never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and <... ROY T. BENNETT True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. “I didn’t ask for thi... J.R. WARD It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. BENJAMIN MAYS My eyes constantly seek the rainbow of my dreams and I sometimes fail to be grateful... VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR Maturity A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body g... PHILIP LARKIN See? Grumpy. And defensive. If you need help, ask me, you stubborn asshole.” “Right, like y... MAISEY YATES I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and si... HARUKI MURAKAMI So ask me if I am alright. 'I’m fine; I’m always fine.' You see this look in my eyes.<... EMMA ROSE KRAUS All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the... KAMAND KOJOURI I learn to trust someone I love.. I learn to deal with heartbreak.. I learn to forgive him... TOBA BETA Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the trut... GERARD WAY if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it w... HANNAH CAO Let me say right now for the record, I’m still going to be here asking this world to dan... ANDREA GIBSON I’m only going say this—love is a wild creature that cannot be tamed. It’s unconditional.... CANDACE KNOEBEL He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. JOHN GREEN Stop it, she told herself. There was only so much she could control. But that ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding." "Stop right ... DEREK LANDY I’m breaking down and I’ve got so little time to do it PHIL VOLATILE Because sometimes in life, sweetheart. The bad guys win -Ford 'Blame It on the Pain ASHLEY JADE Wow, hi,’ Eight says, and when he speaks it’s with his own voice. It’s him. It’s ... PITTACUS LORE Say it, woman." "It. Woman." "God, you're a pain. KRISTAN HIGGINS Failure is when you stop trying to do something. So, if you want to succeed. Don't stop tr... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re no... VERONICA ROTH Ow. Stop that. It hurts my brain. Isn't your brain distributed through your entire body?<... HOWARD TAYLER It’s midnight!” he says frantically, slapping at the door. “Call her. Call your roommate!” COLLEEN HOOVER This must be what love is: a pain so radiant it cuts through all others. SARA ELIZA JOHNSON Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes. Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ... JOSé N. HARRIS Do you think I'm pretty?” He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I... RICHELLE MEAD Okay… This looks bad. You cowboy around with the Avengers some. Guys got, what, armor. ... MATT FRACTION How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much fo... RICHELLE MEAD A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way i... ANTONIA CLARK The Blue Bird from The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my hear... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm tired of being what everyone else wants. Tomorrow, I'm going to be what I want for a change... ANTHONY T. HINCKS We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects,... JOKO BECK But also be careful to not hit with words, For sometimes that hurts worse each time it occurs. SHERRILL S. CANNON So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, t... SARAH DESSEN This Stone He went looking for a road that doesn't lead to death. He went looki... URSULA K. LE GUIN It's going to be okay. Right. Because I love you. Is that why? It is, actually. RAINBOW ROWELL Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why ... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO I don’t think we’re in love anymore. I think about sex constantly. I hate your parents... CAITLYN SIEHL You have really great hands,” she said as he began to massage her butt. “If you ever need extra ... PAIGE TYLER A bird who hurt her wing, now forgotten how to fly. A song she used to sing, bu... LANG LEAV Life is the season for loving and caring, for laughing and caroling, giving and sharing.... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry So my verse has this almost imperceptible thr... MARIO QUINTANA Breaking the circle” My eyes darken when I see my new lover. Fresh prey. My body d... ASPER BLURRY I’m not your father, you know.” It took me a moment to find words. “Excuse me?” �... CHLOE NEILL Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop." I still. "I can't stomach your p... TAHEREH MAFI DEMON MATH What is JUST in a world you've ripped in two as if there could be ... KAMI GARCIA I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?' 'But the... KAUI HART HEMMINGS Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet... MAGGIE STIEFVATER This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Roan rested his forehead against his and put a hand on his chest. Sweet man, one he didn’t de... ANDREA SPEED you say we were never meant for this vowed life, golden bands of only us, and death BETH MOREY You're paid to stop a bullet. It's a soldier's job, they say. And so you stop your bullet, E. Y. HARBURG Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went s... RICK RIORDAN So are we lost or do we know Which direction we should go Sit around and wait for someone ... LOST PROPHETS There's doubt in trying. Just do it or stop thinking. TOBA BETA ROSE: I love you, Jack. JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ... JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li... LIBBA BRAY … I don't know what to say.' ‘That’s okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.�... ÉLISE TURCOTTE Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 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He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens... RAINBOW ROWELL I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.” RAINBOW ROWELL I'm ending this.' 'No. Come on. It's not worth it.' 'You are,' he said fiercel... RAINBOW ROWELL Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever. RAINBOW ROWELL Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m... RAINBOW ROWELL I don't feel like a trauma victim. I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes I fell like someo... RAINBOW ROWELL I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile a... RAINBOW ROWELL Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it. RAINBOW ROWELL I don’t want to love someone so much that they take up all my head, all my space. RAINBOW ROWELL Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date RAINBOW ROWELL I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad t... RAINBOW ROWELL But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to... RAINBOW ROWELL How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside ... RAINBOW ROWELL He's not a monster. He's just a villain. He's not a villain. He's just a boy. I'm kissing a boy. I'm... RAINBOW ROWELL I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisite... RAINBOW ROWELL October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, t... RAINBOW ROWELL When she sat down to write, she didn't have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used ... RAINBOW ROWELL There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her ... RAINBOW ROWELL You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard... RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe... RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay. Right. Because I love you. Is that why? It is, actually. RAINBOW ROWELL Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando... RAINBOW ROWELL I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS. THEY GET BEGINN... RAINBOW ROWELL I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said. "Well, I don't know what it mea... RAINBOW ROWELL He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in... RAINBOW ROWELL No se había dado cuenta de Omaha fuera un sitio tan bonito. (Mentalmente, le atribuía el mérito a... RAINBOW ROWELL «Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta. «Lo so.» Ele... RAINBOW ROWELL What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever... RAINBOW ROWELL No matter what happens," Park said, "I love you. RAINBOW ROWELL This kiss had to last Park forever. It had to get him home. He needed to remember it when ... RAINBOW ROWELL There's not such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There's no such thing as happily ... RAINBOW ROWELL You look like you," he said. "You with the volume turned up. RAINBOW ROWELL Are you sure you want them to meet me?" she asked. "Yes," he said. "I want everyone to me... RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay," Park said. She nodded. "Right." "Because I love you."<... RAINBOW ROWELL I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death. RAINBOW ROWELL Sit down." He said It came out angrily. The girl turned him like she couldn't tell weather he was an... RAINBOW ROWELL Good-bye." she said. "Good-bye, Park." "Good-bye, Eleanor. You know, until tonight. When ... RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe... RAINBOW ROWELL But..." I'm not ready for you to stop being my problem. "It makes more sense, Park. If yo... RAINBOW ROWELL I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too... That sounds bad, like ... RAINBOW ROWELL He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?' 'No,' she said, 'it's...' She couldn't think of anythin... RAINBOW ROWELL Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I... RAINBOW ROWELL She was pretty sure she’d thank him for saving her life. Not just yesterday, but, like practically... RAINBOW ROWELL I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back." ... RAINBOW ROWELL I didn’t write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don’t get endings. They get beginni... RAINBOW ROWELL It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ... RAINBOW ROWELL I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,"... RAINBOW ROWELL Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de... RAINBOW ROWELL He'd stopped trying to bring her back. RAINBOW ROWELL Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it... RAINBOW ROWELL Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks. RAINBOW ROWELL He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm... RAINBOW ROWELL