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1 " There’s no such thing as bad pizza. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , Field Notes on Love
2 " Sometimes it’s good for you to be spectacularly stupid. "
3 " She suspects Hugo's problem isn't that he can't bear to leave. It's that he hasn't figured out where he wants to go. "
4 " For starters, I don't even know what my dreams are. All I know is that I feel... restless. And I'd love to do something different, you know? Something new. "
5 " What do you love most about the world?"Ida smiles. "I love that every generation thinks they've invented it. They think they're the first ones to fall in love and get their hearts broken, to feel loss and passion and pain. "
6 " Everything is always beginning again. "
7 " What do you love most about the world?”Ida smiles. “I love that every generation thinks they’ve invented it. They think they’re the first ones to fall in love and get their hearts broken, to feel loss and passion and pain. And in a way, they are. We’ve been there before, of course. But for young people, that doesn’t matter. Everything is new. Which I love, because it means everything is always beginning again. It’s hopeful, I think. At least to me. "
8 " Do you ever feel like what’s happening at this moment will never happen again? Like you could never repeat it, no matter how hard you tried? "
9 " That’s the thing. You almost never know when you’re saying goodbye to someone forever. "
10 " Most things are easier than you think,” she says. “It’s deciding to do them that’s hard. "
11 " Love is... I don't know. Something bigger than that. It's like the sun.""In that you can get burnt by it?""No," she says wearily, but already her eyes have that starry quality they get whenever she's thinking of Alex. "In that it makes everything brighter and happier. And it warms you from the inside out. "
12 " His heart aches, not because he loves her—he hasn’t for a long time now—but because he loved her once, and that’s something that never completely leaves you. "
13 " It's like I'd been living on a map my whole life and have only now realized the world is actually a globe. "
14 " It’s not supposed to reflect reality,” she said. “Reality is all well and good. But sometimes you just want to pretend the world is a better place than it actually is. That great and wonderful things can happen. That love triumphs over everything. "
15 " Love isn’t magic. It doesn’t transcend time and space. It doesn’t fix anything. It’s just love. "
16 " what do you love most about the world?"Ida smiles. "I love that every generation thinks they've invented it. They think they're the first ones to fall in love and get their hearts broken, to feel loss and passion and pain. And in a way, they are. We've been there before, of course. But for young people, that doesn't matter. Everything is new. Which I love, because it means everything is always beginning again. It's hopeful, I think. At least to me. "
17 " It’s a long story,” he says eventually, and he can almost feel herpeering up at him through the dark.“The good ones usually are. "
18 " I suppose my biggest fear is never seeing my son again. You don't know what happiness is - what it really means - until it's taken away from you. Then you realize the world will never be as bright as it was. "
19 " Look, he’s not totally wrong. If there’s one thing I’ve learned after twelve years at the gallery, it’s that sometimes art isn’t a matter of skill or technique. Sometimes it is about experience. So maybe you’ve got some more living to do. But that’s the case with everyone, whether you’ve grown up in a big city or a small town, whether you’re going to school in Paris or not.”“I know that. It’s just…”“It’s hard. It is. But the hurt and rejection and disappointment? It’ll help you grow as an artist. And it’ll all be worth it when you finally get it right. "
20 " Everyone grows up dreaming of something different, Hugo. And that's okay. It's what makes life so interesting. "
