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1 " You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are the only truth I have ever found in this lying world, and I love you to the floor of me, and it breaks me to imagine a future without you in it, and I just want you to know all that, just because. "
― Seth King , The Summer Remains (The Summer Remains, #1)
2 " Life's supposed to be a little hard. If your life is too easy, you're doing it wrong. "
3 " If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination. "
4 " The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too. "
5 " You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky. "
6 " You’re beautiful, and beautiful things don’t demand attention. It just gravitates to them. "
7 " Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves. "
8 " Comparison is the enemy of happiness, "
9 " Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don't believe in a miracle like love? "
10 " But for every epic love tale splashed out in lights for the world to see, there were ten million more couples that loved each other in the dark just as beautifully. "
11 " Life’s supposed to be hard. If your life is too easy, that means you’re doing it wrong. "
12 " But whatever happened, I knew I’d always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that. "
13 " if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. "
14 " She was everywhere and nowhere and nothing and she was gone. "
15 " Why do all the movies end with the couple running off into the sunset? That’s so boring. Where are the sad stories? That’s why I like Saviour, you know. Life isn’t neat, it’s dirty. I like to be reminded that fucked up stuff exists. It gives me…feelings. Doesn’t feeling stuff, even if it’s bad, make you remember that you’re…I don’t know, alive? "
16 " They called death the great equalizer, and it was – because in the rearview mirror, everyone was a hero. "
17 " We don't get to choose how much time we get in this life, but we do get to choose how we spend it. "
18 " Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone. "
19 " Everyone has issues. The key is finding someone whose issues mesh well with your issues. "
20 " And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to. "
