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1 " The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. "
― Neil Hilborn , Our Numbered Days
2 " Marvel at how she,the patient gardener, the bringer of sleep,she who draws the bath and lights the candles,she who made you someone who could makehimself into someone, she made you wantto live more than anything else, and nowshe makes you want to leave the worldbecause you have seen it. "
3 " Flight is just a fall that never reaches the ground. "
4 " How to kill yourself without hurting anyone. Don't. "
5 " You will never be more wrong than the first time you say "I love you." You will mean it, sure, but you'll still be lying. "
6 " Things that I Hope Are True about HeavenThat the radio always plays what would have been your favourite songs. That there's always coffee if you want it. That you're there. That it's real. "
7 " When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and its gonna go so poorly. "
8 " ...and I am sitting in this park watching an old couple almost cry together, and I want this to be the most important thing I do all year. "
9 " This is what it's like to say goodnight and mean goodbye. "
10 " but it would be nice to say It’s raining only on my head rather than I have a chemical imbalance in my brain or I just remembered that someone I love will die before I do. "
11 " whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing. This is not to say you aren’t special. This is to say thank god you aren’t special. "
12 " Now I just think about who else is kissing her. I can't breathe because he only kisses her once. He doesn't care if its perfect. "
13 " I will whisper your name From the cracks in the canyon rocks And you will know that this is heaven, Knowing that someone will always remember Your irises and where you hid your loveLetters and why you could never speakIn anything but short sentences. "
14 " I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but maybe you should listen to your feet when they tell you to run the fuck away. Maybe you should get out of here, then get out some more. "
15 " I am not saying you will find the meaning of life in other people. I am saying that other people are the life to which you provide the meaning. "
16 " I have been wondering, mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing. When I say I am in love I am also saying the world makes sense to me right now "
17 " Depression wasn’t an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all. I’ve got to go somewhere. I’ve got to go. It "
18 " You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another, "
19 " I will have fun like my life depends on it cause it does. "
20 " I wanna thank you for making all the love songs mean something again "