- I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
- Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk.
- I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.
- "Meant to be," Kate scoffs. "Excuse me but I'm having a hard time buying all this woo-woo stuff." She waves her arms in the air and I have to reach out for the steering wheel until she takes it again. "Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours--life is ruled by accidents--isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?"
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- "I'm beginning to doubt that double happiness even exists," I say, thinking of my parents.
- "That's because you're looking for it. Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith."
- "Aren't those opposites?"
- "Maybe they're just two parts of the couplet."
- It reminds me of something Saba used to say: A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin. It never quite made sense to me before.
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