Quote by Shelley Shepard Gray

“She had everything to recommend her but a heart. And yet that is the last thing a young man looks at.”

— Richard Ben Sapir

“And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.”

— Susan Andersen

“She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“But remember, you don’t need to know the details of her past to love her heart in the present.”

— K. Bromberg

“For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in…

— Joe Meno

“In time she will learn, not to miss them.”

— Lang Leav

“With that knowledge came the realization that I was absolutely, without any shred of doubt, profoundly in love with her. If only I had…

— Audrey Coulthurst

“However I was too young to know how to love her.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“And all these mistakes she made over the years - they shaped her heart like a wildflower.”

— Laura Chouette

“I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I hoped she wouldn’t realize how spectacular she was until she was twenty-five and safely past letting it ruin her.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she’d never asked for.”

— Dinah Jefferies