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1 " Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? "
― , Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (Dash & Lily, #3)
2 " That’s what social media is: the fronts of the postcards, rarely what’s written on the backs. "
3 " You’re on your own … until you’re not. "
4 " Life is so hard. I see it everywhere. I see the homeless people on the street. I see how tragically humans have hurt the earth. How terribly they hurt each other. I also know how lucky I was. I would take my privilege for granted. "
5 " You’re quiet.”“Not in my head. Never in my head. "
6 " I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don’t realise in the moment that it’s on the cusp of being altered. "
7 " Because, at heart, when I tell you I love books, what I am telling you is that I am a reader. Boil off all my pretensions, let my attempts at erudition rise away from me like steam, and what would be left would be a reader who is frequently amazed and educated by what words can do on a page. "
8 " To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform. "
9 " She didn’t fit perfectly into my new life, but the beauty of our relationship is that she hadn’t fit perfectly into my old life, either. Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection. "
10 " I thought I was smart,” I said all of a sudden. “I really thought I was smart. But after the last couple of months, I’m not sure. And that’s paralyzing, isn’t it? to discover you’re bad at the one thing you thought you had going for you? "
11 " And one of the values is the way being lost can lead you to see what you want to find. It helps you sense where you want to be found. Or who you want to be found by. "
12 " The only elixir to pass my lips was solitude.”“Be careful you don’t drink too much of that. It needs to be balanced by a rich diet of fine company. "
13 " It’s good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences. "
14 " Letting go is harder than you can imagine. "
15 " You’re alive, and this is what you’re doing with it?Your youth grows pale. What do you have left?I tried to banish the thoughts from my head. But they were stubborn, and instead of leaving, they jumped on the floorboards inside my head. "
16 " I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered. "
― David Levithan , Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (Dash & Lily, #3)
17 " This is not good,” I told the trees.Don’t fight it. Acknowledge it.Talk to yourself.“Already covered,” I said. “Unless you have something to add?”“No,” I replied. “Do go on. "
18 " A mismatch is the only kind of match that’s worth making. "
19 " If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can’t seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don’t invent a new self, you instead build on what’s already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we’re at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love. "
20 " Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection. "
