Top 40 R.K. Ryals Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The unknown is exciting. Not knowing what you really want to do is an adventure. It’s a chance to go out there and find out what you want, to learn about yourself. Not everyone has it figured out, you know.”

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2. “There’s nothing wrong with emotional scars. Sometimes those are deeper than physical ones.” I.”

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3. “People don’t die, we pass into memory. I’ll live through you, through your heart and your mind. That’s the wonderful thing about life. Our bodies die, but memory allows us to live in those we love.”

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4. “Sometimes love isn’t forever. Sometimes it’s just moments in your life that teach you. If it’s the forever after kind of love, it’ll find you again. If it isn’t, don’t let a broken heart break you. Let it make you love harder. Love is a mistake worth making.”

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5. “In truth, it is evil beauty that is most devastating. For beauty isn’t always good and ugliness isn’t always bad. It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn’t about being brave. True beauty isn’t about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.”

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6. “Life is like a book. Some of the pages you want to rip out and others you want to keep. I’ve been ripping out a lot of pages lately, getting rid of the ugly stuff. The stuff that’s left behind isn’t as bad as I thought it was.”

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7. “Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love.”

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8. “Pain doesn’t answer questions the same way twice. Pain will tell you a lie, and then keep on filling you with varying untruths until you’re left with agony. It only makes you hate yourself rather than giving you a solution.”

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9. “In truth, I don’t really know what I want to do or who I want to be. I just want the freedom to find out.”

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10. “You think my heart will be broken?” “I think your heart will learn. The heart can’t be broken if you don’t let it break. Let it, Hawthorne. People are so afraid of being broken that they don’t allow themselves to learn from the pain. The heart can’t be taught if you don’t give it something to learn.”

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11. “It was time for me to spread my broken wings, to let in the fear and the possibility of heartache. My heart knew what it meant to be broken. It wasn’t breaking my heart I was afraid of. It was healing.”

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12. “Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it’s usually worth it. Sometimes, it’s not.”

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13. “It hurts, the pain, but ask yourself this, is love worth destroying yourself over? You have an amazing amount of love in your life.” He gestured at us. “It’s enough. If Dash truly loves you, then it only makes your life fuller, but if he doesn’t, it doesn’t make your life less rich.”

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14. “True courage isn’t about being brave. It’s about being real. It’s about being able to admit our weaknesses so that we can turn them into strengths.” My.”

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15. “It isn’t about being awkward. It’s about not being ashamed to be awkward. It’s about embracing what makes us different. Perfection and Stereotype are threats to that.”

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16. “Rough rides are smoother when you’ve got a passenger who understands the road.”

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17. “Love isn’t roses. It’s those little square caramels and a root beer from the gas station because he knows that’s your favorite snack. It’s watching a musical with you without groaning. It’s handing you your glasses at night because he knows you’re too blind to find your way to the bathroom without them. Love is awkward.”

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18. “Remember, the way we perceive ourselves is often nothing like what we really are,” he said.”

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19. “Hope is our way of capturing the world. Our way of holding onto every day to get to the next. I am hope.”

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20. “Maybe love could just be a moment, the kind that teaches rather than robs.”

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21. “It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn’t about being brave. True beauty isn’t about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.”

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22. “Even when we grow up, the child remains. It’s the child that shapes the adult. What happens to you when you are young shapes what you become later. Whether you think you belong here or not is beside the point. The little girl that drew Awkward still lives inside of you.”

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23. “Truth was, life had taught me that words were better spoken when they meant something.”

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24. “For I was sure of one thing, it wasn’t always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.”

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25. “Life is about love. It’s about being overwhelmed by it, healed by it, torn asunder by it, and then being rebuilt by it.”

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26. “I grieved his loss, but I think it would have been worse if I’d never known him. I loved that I’d loved him.”

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27. “I like running because it lets everything go. I like walking back because it reminds me why I ran in the first place.”

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28. “To anyone who has ever felt awkward, this is for you. Embrace what makes you unique.”

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29. “Books never die.”

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30. “Do something for me,” I whispered. “Quit fighting. It’s okay to let go now. It’s okay to rest. For my sake.”

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31. “Love could just be a moment, an amazing moment that could teach a person to breathe. It didn’t have to hold a person back.”

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32. “That awkward moment when you discover the guy you never wanted to know becomes the guy you want to understand.”

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33. “There’s this thing love stories always forget to mention. That love isn’t a constant thing. Sometimes it changes, other times it fades completely. Sometimes you have to fall in love twice to truly understand it.”

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34. “He’d left me a song, a pair of shoes, and a reason to fly. It was enough.”

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35. “What was better?” he asked. “The kiss or the fall?” He pulled to a stop in front of the house, and I smiled, my face averted. “Aren’t they the same thing?”

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36. “I wasn’t sure which surprised me the most, the fact that he’d noticed me or the belief that I was unapproachable.”

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37. “True sorrow like true happiness comes from love.”

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38. “I wouldn’t want perfect love. I want true love, the kind that doesn’t depend on pretending to be better than I am.”

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39. “This world is built on awkwardness, on the idea that there is someplace where it’s okay to be different. Where it’s okay not to be perfect,” the troll said. “This world lives in more than one imagination. It was simply your hand that finally gave it a face.”

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40. “Because often it is the reader of adventures who saves the world. Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages... A reader never walks away from her own story.”

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41. “I wouldn’t want perfect love. I want true love, the kind that doesn’t depend on pretending to be better than I am.” I glanced at Elspeth, my gaze soft. “Love isn’t roses. It’s those little square caramels and a root beer from the gas station because he knows that’s your favorite snack. It’s watching a musical with you without groaning. It’s handing you your glasses at night because he knows you’re too blind to find your way to the bathroom without them. Love is awkward.”

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42. “If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story.”

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43. “True courage is admitting when you’re vulnerable.”

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44. “My fingers pressed against the paper’s blue lines. They were like veins, those lines. Straight, perfect veins waiting for the words that would breathe oxygen into them. “I.”

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