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“You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.”

Love Life Friendship Friends Teenagers

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“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.”

Heartbreak Heartbroken

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“If your child shows an aptitude or a passion for something, encourage her toward it and do whatever it takes to allow her to continue pursuing it. Give her all the resources she needs, but let her decide how to use them.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Passion Growth Encouragement

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“And of course he was right, but there was still something in the idea that appealed to me, of cutting apart my body piece by piece, my skin and my brain and my lips and my tongue, giving it all away until there was nothing left in me for anyone to object to. Until I was just a pathetic collection of fingernails and veins, and everyone would feel guilty for their roles in tearing me to scraps.”

Pain Sadness Loneliness Thoughts Self Pity Losing Life

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.”

People Change Who You Are

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all.”

Truth

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“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.”

Love Dating

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“There were people in this world who didn't know how to take care of others. There were people who walked away even when they'd made a promise to stand by you. There were people who threw around the word love but only acted on it when it was convenient for them.”

Love Care Loyalty

Book:Tonight the Streets Are Ours

Source: Tonight the Streets Are Ours

“What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”

Love Romance History

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“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.”

Love Romance Kiss Confusing Past Perfect

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“Sometimes, when you are worn down, day after day, relentlessly, with no reprieve for years piled on years, sometimes you lose everything but the ability to cry.”

Cry Relentless Reprieve Worn Down

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.”

Love Romance Past Perfect

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse about ourselves because we're somehow not able to make it come true.”

Love Romance Past Perfect

Author:Leila Sales

“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.”

Love Romance Past Perfect

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“You'll be fine. Children are like plants. Just water them twice a week and turn them toward the sun.”

Life Children Character Motivation Mom Reality Of Life Sister Talk

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“Don't get too involved in your children's lives. Don't tell your kids what to do; just foster the right worldview in them so that they will choose to do the right things.”

Children Character Encouragement Parenting Reality Of Life Moment

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“You don't have to win every fight or make everyone love you or be the cleverest person in the room. You don't even have to raise your hand or answer every question on a test or get to every class on time. You just have to keep living.”

Character Motivation Dad Parenting Fathers And Daughters Father S Advice Life And Livinge

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“Living is brave. Quitting is cowardly.”

Life Character Death Survival Realization Life And Death Living Life Abeceda

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”

Music

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.”

Life Inspirational Beautiful Teen Self Harm Leila Sales This Song Will Save Your Life

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?”

Beautiful Suicide Being Yourself Bullying

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.”

Friendship Music Ya True Friends Leila Sales Tswsyl

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“When something seems like an unbelievable coincidence, then consider that it might not be a coincidence”

Inspirational Children Science Historical Fiction Middle Grade Children S Books Childrens Books Children S Literature

Book:Once Was a Time

Source: Once Was a Time

“In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red.”

Cutting Blood Oxygen

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all you are still always, *you*: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?”

Self Esteem Contentment Self Acceptance Self Belief

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray”

High School Awkward Popularity

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.”

Love Happiness Relationships Heartbreak

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“United we stand, divided we fall Just watch us as we beat ya’ll. You say ‘brother against brother’? Well, my brother screwed your mother And she liked it! We’ll kick your shins and break your knee ’Cause all you got is Robert E. Lee. Farbs!”

Cheer Chant Cheerleaders

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.”

Life

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well.”

Know Me Believe In

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.”

Life Perfect Days Everything Goes Wrong

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“But I also felt like an eggshell that had gotten a tiny crack. You can’t repair something like that. All you can do is hope that it sticks together, hope that the crack doesn't grow until all your insides come spilling right out.”

Weak Repair Crack Stick Together Insides

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.”

People Life Care Relationships Caring

Book:Past Perfect

Source: Past Perfect

“Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right.”

Self Internet Versions Right

Book:This Song Will Save Your Life

Source: This Song Will Save Your Life

“She has to learn to live with the consequences of her actions. We can't teach her that every time she made a mistake, we'll be here to clean up after her.”

Encouragement Mistakes Right Attitude How To Raise A Child Parent S Love Facing Consequences

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

“That would make my job much easier. Unfortunately, the internet is like an elephant: it doesn't forget.”

Life Reality History Internet Comparisons

Book:If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say

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