Ann Brashares

"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it."

"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."

"Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out."

"Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do."

"Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair."

"some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once."

"You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen"

"He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries…"