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1 " So Sonia was not my only or even my first best friend. She was the last. It wasn t that I hadn t made friends since just that I thought myself past the age of that particular kind of friendship. Adult friendship doesn t grant you an exclusive isn t meant to be ranked above romance and family. I couldn t imagine ever living that moment again when you say with a shy and hopeful pride You re my best friend. The other person says it back and there you have chosen each other out of everyone else in the world. "
― Leah Stewart , The Myth of You and Me
2 " A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. "
3 " You're not a realist," she says. "You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream. "
4 " Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain. "
5 " Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it. "
6 " ....and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home," to hear someone you love call your name. "
7 " The first time you fall in love, it's like you've created the first love in the universe, and the first time someone you love dies, you grieve the universe's first death. What does it help to be told that what you feel is nothing new? "
8 " That's just how it is, you know," she said. "Women always choose men over other women. "
9 " Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how long their friendship would last, and I felt sorry for them, because they didn't know it wouldn't. "
10 " I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving "
11 " I’d always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal. "
12 " Adult friendship doesn’t grant you an exclusive, isn’t meant to be ranked above romance and family. "
13 " She couldn’t be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable. "
