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1 " Girls in love will do desperate and creative things. "
― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat
2 " I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things. "
3 " Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue. "
4 " But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars. "
― Monica Hesse
5 " Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them. "
6 " But when it comes down to it, we all die alone. "
7 " My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole. "
8 " I like the idea of that small rebellion, carrying a paper piece of the resistance in my shoes. "
9 " Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole. "
10 " Sometimes hope can be poisonous. "
11 " When things come to an end in a way you didn't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Does it mean you should keep searching, for better answers, for ones that don't keep you up at night? Or does it mean it's time to make peace? "
12 " I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault. "
13 " Isn't love the opposite of rational? "
14 " Choose to love. "
― Monica Hesse , They Went Left
15 " None of these are the miracles I was looking for. But they’re miracles nonetheless "
16 " let go of a friend I’ll still miss every day. I’ll go back to work. I’ll get better. I’ll get better slowly. I’ll find all the secret, hidden things. "
17 " Here is the thing about my grief: It’s like a very messy room in a house where the electricity has gone out. "
18 " The absence of pain is not the same as the presence of happiness". "
19 " Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own home city. "
20 " We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn’t know. We didn’t mean it. It wasn’t our fault. "
