"Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful."
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"Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you."
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"Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path."
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"You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law."
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"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
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"The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped."
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"Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run."
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"The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life."
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"And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating."
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"people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine."
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"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."
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"An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly."
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"I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again."
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"I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
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"The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them."
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"Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE."
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"My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once."
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"The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone."
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"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."
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"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side."
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