Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
Tagged: Love, Friendship
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
— Mary Oliver, The Uses of Sorrow
Tagged: Love, Blessing
“For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.”
— Anne Fadiman, The Atlantic
Tagged: The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine, TheAtlantic.com, Atlantic, News, Opinion, breaking news, analysis, commentary, Business, Politics, Culture, international, Science, Technology, national and life
“Life’s plenty easy when you’re winning. It’s what you do when you’re down. That’s the real test.”
— Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie
Tagged: Life
“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Tagged: Struggle
“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”
— Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
Tagged: Relationships
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Love, romance
“It’s hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we’re left with a fistful of ashes.”
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
Tagged: Love, Letting Go
“When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.”
— Jay Crownover, Jet: A Marked Men Novel
Tagged: romance, Love
“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Love