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1 " ... watching the undergraduates make out. They laughed, but the sight hurt her, like a tightness in her chest that kept her from breathing freely. How long had it been since she'd kissed anyone? "
― Theodora Goss , The Thorn and the Blossom
2 " This was it, a part of him thought--what he had been waiting for, longing for, all his life. The answer to the loneliness he'd felt since he was a child and that others didn't seem to feel. "
3 " They would not live happily ever after, because no one did that. But they would be together, and that was enough. "