“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“This is life. We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of really great stuff too.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Those are the things that define us. The way we love the people around us, and the choices we make to show it. That's what makes us who we are.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I like it because it’s the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They’re anyone’s guess.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“No one ever died from having too much information. It’s the misunderstandings that are the problem.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak?”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“I guess that's the thing about getting older. You realize your differences can be good things. Not just bad ones.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“It’s not that most girls are delusional, per se. It’s just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different. And if there’s one thing I’m really against, it is turning a blind eye to reality. What’s the point? Things are the way they are, and the best thing for us to do is to just acknowledge that. No one ever died from having too much information. It’s the misunderstandings that are the problem.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“This is life." he says. "We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of good stuff too.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“A volte la cosa più difficile del lasciar andare via qualcuno è rendersi conto che non avrebbe mai dovuto stare nella nostra vita.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“A volte capitano cose che sfuggono alla nostra comprensione. Di una crudeltà intollerabile. Ma questo non significa che dobbiamo rinchiuderci in un angolo e smettere di lottare.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“He said nothing. Juliana peeped at him again. “You’re very anxious to get her in your power again,
Vidal. But I don’t quite know why you should be, for you meant to marry her only because you had
ruined her, and so were obliged to, didn’t you?”
She thought that he was not going to answer, but suddenly he raised his eyes from the contemplation
of the dregs of his wine. “Because I am obliged to?” he said. “I mean to marry Mary Challoner
because I’m devilish sure I can’t live without her.”
Juliana clapped her hands with a crow of delight. “Oh, it is famous!” she exclaimed. “I never dreamed
you had fallen in love with my staid Mary! I thought you were chasing her through France just
because you so hate to be crossed! But when you flew into a rage with me for saying she was too dull
to be afraid of you, of course, I guessed at once! My dearest Dominic, I was never more glad of
anything in my life, and it is of all things the most romantic possible! Do, do let us overtake them at
once! Only conceive of their astonishment when they see us!”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Devil's Cub
“The reason everyone thinks all frogs go “ribbit” is that “ribbit” is the distinctive call of the Pacific tree frog (Hyla regilla). This is the frog that lives in Hollywood.”
― John Lloyd, quote from The Book of General Ignorance
“There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.'
'Dangerous? What do you mean?'
'Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mysterious Mr. Quin
“So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Night Is for Hunting
“They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, quote from The Thing Around Your Neck
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