“You don’t get to choose who handles your heart. There are simply people who were born with it in their teeth. When you meet them, it is best to build a bomb shelter.”— Tara Hardy, fleurishes.tumblr.com
“And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It’s knowing you could be the author instead.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”— Alice Sebold, amazon.com
“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached.”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”— Beau Taplin, beautaplin.com
“I don’t think that anything happens by coincidence. No one is here by accident. Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason.”— James Redfield, amazon.com
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”— Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
“Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”— Edward Albee, amazon.com
“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”— Zoraida Córdova, amazon.com
“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com