Top 90 Parker S. Huntington Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Bolt is a contronym – a word that is opposite itself. If you bolt something, you hold it together. If you bolt, you separate by fleeing. Bolt is a reminder that words were made by humans, and sometimes, humans make mistakes. Mistakes are powerful, not because they have the power to ruin your life, but because they possess the power to make you stronger.”

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52. “Books. Rain. Libraries. Driving alone at night with my favorite playlist in the background. Traveling – mainly for the food. But the historic stuff is decent, too.”

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53. “You’re breathing, Charlie. You are breathing, and it is beautiful, and I am so grateful for that.”

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54. “When I loved a book, I didn’t read it once. I read it over and over again – until the pages fell off, until I could anticipate the words before I read them, until they sunk into me and melted inside my bones in a way that never happened with books I’d only read once.”

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55. “Don’t succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame.”

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56. “The problem with books about suicide is they’re written by people who are alive.”

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57. “He taught me darkness. He taught me strength. Most importantly, he delivered the cruelest lesson of all – there’s beauty in every beast. Thorns in every rose. And a love story can blossom – even from the carcass of hate.”

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58. “I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”

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59. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill.”

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60. “I love you, Carina Amelia Gallo. You were made for me, and no matter where you are or how much time passes, I will always find you, because our love is fated, and Romeo needs his Juliet.”

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61. “Everyone will hurt you. The key to happiness is finding someone worth enduring the pain.”

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62. “Sometimes, you have to forgive people if you still want them in your life.”

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63. “Ya’aburnee is Arabic for you bury me. It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them.”

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64. “What you’re experiencing isn’t a dry spell. It’s a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off?”

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65. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. Eddie Rickenbacker.”

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66. “Do you think you’re in anyone’s favorite memory?”

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67. “Dozens of emerald-green frames littered the wall, and in each of them, our love letters were proudly displayed. In the center, like a nucleus, rested my letter, surrounded by a stunning cerulean frame.”

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68. “I was not a forgiving person. I latched onto grudges and raised them like a favorite pet, never forgetting to feed them, entertain them, and keep them company.”

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69. “I lean against the door, watching my wife exist. Loudly. Messily. Unapologetically. Just the way a woman loved is meant to bloom.”

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70. “Because that was what we were, essentially. Authors of our own stories.”

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71. “Break me.” She stared at me like she wasn’t completely whole and didn’t entirely care. “Then put me back together, mismatched, scarred, and chaotic as this storm.”

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72. “Living is an addiction, and it’s better to crave it than hate it.”

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73. “Nash reminded me of a favorite song. One you play so often you think you can’t stand anymore. But in the silence, when the world is quiet and your brain is pliant, the chords repeat in your mind, and you remember it’s your favorite melody.”

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74. “I liked being too much because it meant I was never too little.”

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75. “I never really gave much thought to Fate, but every time I considered how hard the world must have worked to get our paths to intersect so many different ways, I became a believer.”

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76. “People are hardwired to believe charity is selfless. In reality, charity is giving to yourself by giving to others. That’s not selfless. That’s penance.”

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77. “There was nothing to say. The final crack to the mirror had been dealt. We couldn’t fix it. We were irreparably damaged.”

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78. “No, it’s not. It’s about your fear. Your inability to lose control. You’ve always been the person others depend on, and now it’s your turn to depend on me. It scares you. You don’t want to tell me you love me because you think it gives me power over you.”

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79. “She craved my words, just like I craved the ones on her shirt.”

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80. “This is not the beginning of something,” Kellan warned. “If anything, it’s the end.”

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81. “Sometimes, I don’t recognize you, Nash. Doesn’t that scare you?”

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82. “She was broken. I was destroyed. This had disaster written all over it.”

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83. “Falling in love makes you feel immortal. Don’t you want that?”

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84. “Sometimes, when I read, I realized I was happiest in a world that wasn’t mine.”

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85. “Nash Prescott was thrift-shop beauty, threadbare and jaded, the memory of something once beautiful lingering as he looked on the world with war-torn eyes.”

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86. “He smelled of beer and leather and cigarettes and trouble. Like a bad boy.”

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87. “This is why ribs form a cage around the heart. It’s an untamed animal, and wild animals can’t be trusted.”

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88. “My pinky brushed his. I stuck it out, letting it drag along his skin before retreating. His bumped mine. Was it sad that I considered this foreplay?”

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89. “Fate is a hurricane. You think you know where it’s going. You think you’re safe. And just when you think you’ve weathered the storm, its path moves directly into yours.”

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90. “Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.”

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91. “More importantly – she was finally coming to terms with the cover she’d been dealt with in life and remembering what the most important part of the book was. The spine.”

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92. “I mouthed words I loved to calm myself, letting them form on my lips without releasing them into a universe that destroyed.”

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