Cynthia Hand Quotes

1. “There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”

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2. “It's funny how when people change, you forget the way they used to be.”

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3. “So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love.”

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4. “You have made my life into something so extraordinary, you can't even know.”

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5. “So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.”

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6. “I'm looking at you. Why are you always trying to hide how pretty you are?”

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7. “Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.”

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8. “And sometimes time really does stop.”

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9. “Have you ever been to a place you’re supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?”

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10. “This is the part where I kiss you.”

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11. “I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”

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12. “Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.”

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13. “You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.”

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14. “Time passes. That’s the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.”

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15. “I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.”

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16. “Clara: My heart doesn’t belong to me anymore. It belongs to Tucker.”

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17. “This moment was written in the stars, and it is everything he thought it would be.”

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18. “I’m in love with Tucker Avery.”

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19. “Dude. Hot Bozo. Best nickname ever.”

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20. “But Tucker is my choice. I love him. That isn’t going to go away.”

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21. “Tucker strokes my hair. There’s something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.”

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22. “You never know when it’s going to be the last time. That you hug someone. That you kiss. that you say goodbye.”

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23. “The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother’s in love. I also find this kind of gross.”

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24. “Haven’t you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you.”

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25. “I wonder if the prayers of angel-bloods count more than regular people’s.”

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26. “See, that’s what I like about you, Carrots You’re not fussy.”

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27. “This is going to sound trite, I suppose, but you never know when it’s going to be the last time. That you hug someone. That you kiss. That you say goodbye.”

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28. “Angela’s in love with an angel.”

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29. “Because that’s what it’s all about, right? Connection. Togetherness. Love.”

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30. “I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.”

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31. “I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell.”

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32. “It’s been nice knowing you, Clara, Huh? My brain still a bit shell-shocked. Say a prayer for me, will you? He gives me a shaky grin. Because I’m pretty sure my parents are going to kill me.”

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33. “I won’t be that girl who lets the guy treat her like crap and still fawns all over him.”

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34. “Tucker: I’m glad it happened. because then I got to know who you really are. Clara: Oh yeah? Who am I? Tucker: A really, really spiritual, spoiled California chick. Avery: Shut up. Tucker: It’s cool though. My girlfriend is an angel.”

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35. “I don’t know what to say. This summer hasn’t turned out at all the way I’d planned. I’m not supposed to be standing in the middle of a barn with a blue-eyed cowboy who’s looking at me like he’s about to kiss me. I shouldn’t be wanting him to kiss me.”

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36. “Note to self: buy some nunchucks or something.”

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37. “I’m having an argument with myself. And I’m losing. So not good.”

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38. “I love how he sometimes gets embarrassed by the mushy stuff between us and then his voice gets all gruff and he tickles me or kisses me to shut us both up. Boy, do we ever kiss. We make out like champions.”

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39. “Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it’s against the rules? Clara: Because I love you.”

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40. “Oh, come on. You eye-hump him all through British History.”

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41. “I beat at him uselessly with my fists. I scream. My mind races. I’ll pee on him. Puke, bite, scratch. Sure, I’ll lose, but if he’s going to mark me I am going to mark him, too, if such a thing is possible.”

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42. “So with my luck, I’ll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.”

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43. “So spring break consisted of seven fun-filled days cooped up in the house with Jeffrey, who was grounded because he’d won the Regional Wrestling Championships.”

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44. “In fact, I’ve essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I’m going to be an angel-blood who stays earthbound, a flightless bird, like an ostrich. Maybe, or in this weather, a penguin.”

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45. “There I go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate’s shoulder.”

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46. “Clara’s mother: Yes, and what could possible be more important to your life right now than Christian? Clara: I’m going out with Tucker.”

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47. “Tucker: “Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang to it to make it go away.” Mrs. Avery: You sang to it? Tucker: Her singing is that bad.”

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48. “I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.”

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49. “I mean, what good is a women’s lib if we can’t use it to ask guys to dances?”

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50. “Christian is staring at us. He’s an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.”

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