- She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
- I nod. If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
- I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.
- School is school—she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.
- What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realized why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
- The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
- People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take the body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always.
- I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality.
- This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
- You are so close, I think. You are so close, and I can't reach you.
- They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really part of it.
- I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
- The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
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