"When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy."
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"Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is."
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"Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it."
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"I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin."
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"He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world."
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"Love obeys no laws other than its own."
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"Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you."
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"He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief."
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"Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain"
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"They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie"
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"Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music."
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"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."
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"Music, I think, he makes me feel like music"
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"And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine."
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"And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry."
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"Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel."
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"Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking."
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"I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating."
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"Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch."
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"People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed."
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