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21 " Sometimes the best ideas come from the most unlikely sources. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , Field Notes on Love
22 " You don’t know what happiness is – what it really means – until it’s taken away from you. Then you realise the world will never be as bright as it was. "
23 " But with Hugo, there was no thinking, only feeling. Everything else melted away, and the world went quiet. There was something almost inevitable about it, something automatic, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, to be kissing him like that. "
24 " It's not supposed to reflect reality...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. "
25 " Love is like this pizza. It’s warm and gooey and delicious, but it doesn’t last. "
26 " I was in love many times before I met your grandfather. Some of them lasted a long time; some of them didn’t. The trick is not to worry about it. If you spend too much time thinking about when it will disappear, you’ll miss the whole thing. "
27 " Or maybe he’s just not used to being alone; maybe that’s something you need to practice, like playing football or the violin. "
28 " She knows this can’t last – whatever it is; that a few days from now, they’ll be getting off at different stations, going in different directions. But she doesn’t care. Because for now, they have this: a happiness so big it doesn’t leave the room for worries. "
29 " You’ve known for a long time that you want something different. It just took you a while to figure out what it was. "
30 " I sort of missed you.”“I sort of missed you too. "
31 " I just mean . . . when I come up with a great idea for a film, it’s like being drunk. You know that giddy feeling you get when you’re psyched about something? It’s exciting because it’s all potential. But then you wake up the next morning and reality has sunk in. you start to wonder if the idea was really good as you thought, and you suddenly see all the holes in the plan, and that high from the night before starts to crash. That’s the hangover. "
32 " Don’t give it up without a fight just because you’re scared.”“I’m not – ““You are. And that’s okay. It’s scary to think about doing something totally different. Especially something like this. To go off on your own for a year, leave your family behind, take such a big chance – I think it’s really brave. But it’s not gonna just happen. If it’s what you want, you have to make your own magic. Lay it all on the line, "
33 " It was a stupid idea.”“Sometimes those can be good for you. "
34 " I’m starting to realise that a lot of people don’t put much stock in dreams. They think of them like these faraway planets they never really expect to reach. I was only supposed to step out of my life for a week, but that’s another thing nobody tells you: that once you get there, it’s never enough. There are always more planets to see. "
35 " The truth is, love isn’t just one word. At least not to him. It’s different things for different people. "
36 " Be good. Be brave. Be yourself. "
37 " It’s not that she doesn’t believe in love. But seeing other people’s stories unfold always feels like watching a movie she would never have picked out for herself. Somewhere there must be a version that’s more like the films in her head, bright and colorful and unique. "
38 " Everyone grows up dreaming of something different, Hugo. And that's okay. It's what makes life so interesting "
39 " It was like having an extra sun in their orbit, an inexhaustible source of warmth and energy. "
40 " 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. "