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61 " But he died," I protested."It's a condition of living," she said. "
― Emily Henry , The Love That Split the World
62 " Sometimes you can change your mind about a person," I tell her. "Or your feelings for them change, or they change, or, I don't know, you just want to make a different decision. And that's always okay. You don't owe anyone anything. You know that, don't you? "
63 " You don't know everything," he says softly. "Not yet you don't. And when you see those good things - and I promise you, there are so many good things - they're going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss see,s deeper and bigger when you stare at it. If you stick it out, it's all going to feel worth it in the end. Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they'll all feel worth it when you're staring light in the face. Okay? "
64 " But it's also about the cost of love. To grow up is to love. To love is to die. "
65 " Grandmother taugh me that eventually - whether with a thousand tiny fissures or one swift split - love will break your heart. My heart is breaking. "
66 " Megan's silent for a long moment before she murmurs, "I changed my mind.""About what?""Denial," she says. "I don't want to live ther after all. I want to feel everything so much it hurts. "
67 " I think right then he could’ve told me he was the one who spread out the stars and I would have been neither surprised nor any more impressed than I already was. "
68 " What is love," she says, "other than putting someone else before you? "
69 " I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you'll have one of joy too. "
70 " She would fold herself around him to protect him. She would drink out all the darkness from him and pour out all her light on him. She would rebuild the whole world for him. "
71 " There's little to feel when you love. There's nothing to fear when you are loved. "
72 " He wants to have your glorious, blue-eyed babies," I whisper."So as long as no one tells him he doesn't have a uterus, I have a chance?" she murmurs back. "
73 " Honey, you're a smart kid, and you're sensitive too. That's not a bad thing, but it is a hard thing. For you, the dark's going to feel a whole lot darker, and you won't be able to hide from it. But I want you to listen to me. Listen good. You don't know everything, not yet you don't. And when you see those good things-and I promise you, there are so many good things-they're going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it. "
74 " I wonder what that must feel like, to know that for sure. This is home. "
75 " You gotta enjoy the moment sugarcube. You'll miss your whole life looking forward and backward if you're not careful "
76 " I wish that change weren't so hard, or that I didn't feel so thoroughly that I need it in order to make room to live or space in my head to think. "
77 " There is always more to see and feel "
78 " God is a thing I think I see in 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. And "
79 " Being with him feels like a better version of being alone. "
80 " Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they’ll all feel worth it when you’re staring light in the face. "