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21 " It is not our job to be happy, to be in love. We exist to make happiness and love possible for others. "
― Lauren Kate , Teardrop (Teardrop, #1)
22 " Tossed By Waves,She Does Not Sink. "
23 " Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest. "
24 " Love. That which makes a life worth living. That which arrives to carry us where we need to go. "
25 " Brooks understood more than ever that she was the star of his life. "
26 " She liked the way this road smelled in the evenings, like rain falling on night-blooming jasmine. Locusts sang old songs in the darkness. "
27 " … in the sea of love, where everyone would love to drown. But now it’s gone; they say it doesn’t matter anymore.… "
28 " Love was a dance floor, where everyone you lost left a mark behind. "
29 " NEVER HAVE I EVER … • lied at Confession, • made out with my friend’s sister, • blackmailed a teacher, • smoked a joint, • lost my virginity. The way they played it at Evangeline, people who had done what you had not done had to tell their story and pass you their drink to gulp. The purer your past, the faster you got drunk. It was a corruption of the innocent, a confession in reverse. No one knew how the tradition got started. "
30 " There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits. "
31 " Being left out was a kind of freedom... "
32 " He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer. "
33 " The sight of his face made her want to run away and straight to him, to see how intense those blue eyes could get. "
34 " What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved. "
35 " Her faith in you survives her, "
36 " You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don’t learn to engage with the world. "
37 " We often seek the companionship of others who display aspects we've repressed to the depths of our shadow. "
38 " Eureka didn’t voice her perverse enjoyment at dressing as an object with a second life when it was dead. "
39 " Coach’s sad smile suggested that after a suicide attempt, a girl’s decisions weighed less, like bodies on the moon. "
40 " The funeral was not a funeral. Her family called it a memorial service, because they hadn’t found Diana’s body yet, but everyone in New Iberia called the hour at St. Peter’s a funeral, either out of respect or ignorance. The boundary was hazy. "