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21 " No matter how hard it feels, you don't need to be afraid to move on, and you don't need to be afraid to stay either. There's always more to see and feel. "
― Emily Henry , The Love That Split the World
22 " And because she jumped, our world began "
23 " Growing up is going to hurt. Only you can decide if the pain is worth the love. "
24 " It's true that nothing has the potential to hurt so much as loving someone, but nothing heals like it either. "
25 " I don't love Beau yet, I don't think. But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other's. "
26 " God is a thing I think I see glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing to be reduced to a name or a set of rules and instead winding itself through millions of stories, true and made up, connecting all breathing things. "
27 " ...I'd realized how much I'd always love someone at the same moment I realized that person and I might never fit together again. "
28 " I’m getting my things for class when I feel a pair of hands slide down around my eyes. “Guess Who.”“Harry Styles?” “So close it’s insane.”“Okay, give me a clue.”“I’m one of your biggest fans.”“I’m having a hard time, because the only thing that’s coming to mind other than Harry Styles is the ghost of River Phoenix, and I wouldn’t be able to feel his hands. "
29 " And then one day, our parents look at us and notice we’re whole people. We’re not a part of them anymore, even if they’re a part of us. And for the ones who never really wanted to be parents anyway, that’s probably a relief. "
30 " I twist my fingers through his hair, press my lips to his cheek. The words tangle in my throat, being born and dying a thousand times. I love you. "
31 " If you want the good, you can't give up. "
32 " God is a thing I know when I see, and I see It all over, in Megan, in the night sky and the morning sun, and especially in Grandmother. "
33 " No story is truer than any other story that has the truth in its heart "
34 " Being around people is exhausting. Being around Beau is like a really good version of being alone, as easy but more fun. "
35 " The way to make the best decisions is to listen to all the stories and to know them by heart and to feel them in your bones "
36 " The world is going to keep right on being beautiful and terrible all at once "
37 " And sometimes, we don’t talk about things because we don’t want to be comforted. We don’t want anyone to tell us it wasn’t our fault, or that they forgive us, or that we did the best we could. We want to hold on to that pain because we think that’s what we deserve. We worry that if we let it go, we’re dishonoring it. "
38 " Dance used to do that for me too: a place where there was nothing to do but be me and let everything else fall away. For a lot of the girls on the team, it was all about the performance, but for me, I think it was always about communication. "
39 " When I was your age, I knew nothing. Nothing about myself, nothing about the universe or about heartbreak. I remember being terrified to grow up, afraid of losing my friends, sure I’d lose my mind. Life felt like a blender that wanted to eat me. "
40 " You're a beautiful and wonderful and sensual and strong golden fawn, she says, followed by That was supposed to say "my best friend," but my phone... "