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81 " For hours, they wrote back and forth, a conversation punctuated by short periods of waiting, where Lucy held her breath and kept watch over her phone, resenting the constraints of technology, the limits of distance. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Geography of You and Me
82 " Now Hadley presses her forehead against the window of the taxi and once again finds herself smiling at the thought of him. He's like a song she can't get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn't think she could ever get tired of hearing it. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
83 " The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to go but down. "
84 " [Hadley] "I have a fear of mayo, so I've actually gotten pretty good at it over the years."[Oliver] "You have a fear of mayo?"She nods again."It's in my top three or four.""What are the others?" he asks with a grin. "I mean what could possibly be worse than mayonnaise. "
85 " Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women who seem weirdly delighted to be bailing out of a series of cartoon planes. Beside her, Oliver stifles a laugh, and she glances up again."What?""I've just never seen anyone actually read one of those things before.""Well," she says, "then you're very lucky to be sitting next to me. "
86 " It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity. "
87 " He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn’t think she could ever get tired of hearing it. "
88 " What are you really studying?"He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of love at first sight.""Very funny," she says. "What is it really?""I'm serious.""I don't believe you."He laughs, then lowers his mouth so that it's close to her ear. "People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely too fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else. "
89 " Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again? "
90 " It's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone. "
91 " I can't believe you're here," she says, her voice soft. "I can't believe you found me.""You found me first," he says, and when he leans to kiss her, it's slow and sweet and she knows that this will be the one she always remembers. Because while the other two kisses felt like endings, this one is unquestionably a beginning. "
92 " I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended. "
93 " You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something set it free.""What if he doesn't come back?""Something do, somethings don't," he said, reaching to tweak her nose. "I'll always come back to you anyway.""You don't light up," Hadley said, but Dad only smiled."I do when I'm with you. "
94 " Because I was with you," he tells her. "I feel better when I'm with you. "
95 " There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. "
96 " And in August it will be fifty-two years together.”“Wow,” Oliver says. “That’s amazing.”“I wouldn’t call it amazing,” the woman says, blinking. “It’s easy when you find the right person. "
97 " That’s the way these things work, kiddo,” he says. “Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical. "
98 " Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is. "
99 " But there's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending. "
100 " And see those clouds?''Hard to miss''Those are cumulus clouds. Did you know that?''I'm sure I should.'They're the best ones.''How come?'Because they look the way clouds are supposed to look, the way you draw them when you're a kid. Which is nice, you know? ... "