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21 " I was trying not to lose you. But I lost you anyway. "
― Katie Cotugno , 99 Days
22 " I loved ... the honest soul he kept hidden safe under all his bravado, and I loved how I was still, every day, learning him. "
― Katie Cotugno , How to Love
23 " ...it occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much. "
24 " ...somehow this seems inevitable, the natural course of things. Maybe he's a homing pigeon. Maybe I'm his home. "
25 " Kissing him feels familiar but also new, a song they haven’t played on the radio in a really long time. "
26 " Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. "
27 " Wait, I almost shouted, but didn't, and that would be my burden to bear. "
28 " Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?""I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be? "
29 " I couldn't figure out how you could go from feeling so close to a person one minute to not being sure if you even knew them the next. "
30 " It felt like he could open up my head and see inside. "
31 " It feels like we’re circling something here, like maybe we both know where this is headed. Like maybe we sort of always have. "
32 " I like how the implication there is that the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in me. Give me the car keys. "
33 " Why are you going to let people who are hell-bent on not forgiving you keep you from something that could actually be great? "
34 " ...it’s just really hard to remember your hometown isn’t the only place in the world "
35 " I don’t know how I became this person, one of those girls with a lot of drama around her. A person whose romantic garbage literally fills an entire book. "
36 " It occurred to her to wonder if this was what growing up meant, to continuously find yourself in situations that you didn't feel remotely prepared to handle. "
― Katie Cotugno , Top Ten
37 " ...as if there's some invisible string that kept us tethered the entire time he was away and that's tightening now... "
38 " Can you allow for the possibility that you're more special than you give yourself credit for? "
― Katie Cotugno , Fireworks
39 " I imagine him grown up and finished with med school, patients lying on the operating table—reaching inside people’s rib cages, fixing their broken hearts. "
40 " I just didn't know how to do this, ...the clang and chatter... . And more than that, I didn't particularly want to learn. "