Quotes from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

“Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

“Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

“I should have been braver myself, shown you it's okay to get hurt along the way.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

“Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

“We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

“Number 40: Love is worth the risk.”
― Alice Kuipers, quote from 40 Things I Want To Tell You

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BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

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