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61 " I still have that drawing. Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it. "
― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories
62 " What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy. "
63 " The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts.But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left. "
64 " I never thought I would end up with someone who wasn't possessed by music in the same way I am. "
65 " If I didn't have music, I don't know if I could ever be truly happy, and if I didn't have these moments, I would never find music. It is everywhere, in the air between us, waiting to be sung. "
66 " Must interests be interesting? That is, must they be interesting to someone other than yourself? "
67 " Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible. "
68 " Let's stay on this song, before it turns to something else, before it switches to a commercial. Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else. "
69 " If he said anything to me, I would gather the sentences like a shell seeker. "
70 " It was, I thought, a simple equation:You find the right person.You do the right things.And from that, everything goes right. "
71 " Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads. Happenstances. I just happened to be one of them. "
72 " Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn’t everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it. "
73 " I did not want the universe's ever-growing entropy to interfere with my lovelife "
74 " It was cool to see reading become such a transparent act - it was as if her face had a different expression for each punctuation mark, and when there was dialogue you could see her actually listening to it in her head. "
75 " You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. What would you have them do? "
76 " It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.Know, and love. "
77 " When you're in high school, love is rare and like is enjoyable, so you just take what you can get. "
78 " What do I know about love? Not much - that's the safe answer. "
79 " When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else. "
80 " She wasn't pretty, but there were moments when I found her beautiful. "