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41 " You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love. "
― Daniel Handler , Adverbs
42 " Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we’re not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single. "
43 " Finders keepers is what they say, and I wanted to be kept. "
44 " This is love, to sit with someone you’ve known forever in a place you’ve been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it’s time to go. You don’t care about yours. Why should it change, the love you feel, no matter how death goes? "
45 " Love is this sudden crash in your path, quick and to the point, and nearly always it leaves someone slain on the green. "
46 " You know how the nurses started asking me to rate my pain one to ten? I just started giving them random numbers. You can’t get to ten, I told the one with those earrings I want to yank out. You can’t get to ten because someone might slap you and that would hurt more. "
47 " Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave. "
48 " The miracle is the adverbs. The way things are done. "
49 " This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed this over. This unites us, this part of love. "
50 " So she loved him. She just did, immediately and again, often and clearly, naturally and soundly and obviously and many others. "
51 " Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. "
52 " Nobody knows why men do things. "
53 " You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love. If you are going to take a lifelong journey with somebody, you can’t mind if the other person believes they are leaving for that journey an hour earlier than you, as long as truly, in the real world, you are both leaving at exactly the same time. "
54 " Another song,” Allison says. “The one by that band, from when I was in high school, that saved my life the way songs do. "
55 " But more often the woman was alone and would walk around naked for some reason, neither beautiful enough nor ugly enough to make sense. "
56 " You don’t say,” Helena said. She took a cigarette out of her ripped purse and lit it because she smoked. She was a smoker. "
57 " This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. "
58 " The street was a yellow streak, however many yards wide, cabs and cabs and cabs and the occasional car that wasn’t a cab so the whole thing looked like a scarcely-been-touched ear of corn. "
59 " Someday we will all be dead people but in the meantime we have these problems to solve. "
60 " I know all these facts about you and there is no longer any use for them. "