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21 " Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have. "
― Sarah Addison Allen , Lost Lake (Lost Lake, #1)
22 " But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling. "
23 " One thing Billy knew that most people don't know is that the longer you have a wish, the closer you get to it becoming true. Most people never get what they want because they change what they want, change it into something more practical or reachable. ...Billy felt sorry for the other people who gave up their wishes so easily. "
24 " Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone. "
25 " The world was not like him and was not going to change for him. The trick to getting through life, she'd told him, is not to resent it when it isn't exactly how you think it should be. "
26 " She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child happily sitting inside, smiling at you. "
27 " Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed. "
28 " We are conduits for happiness. "
29 " Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty. You know why? Because the endings changed. After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end. That's what's happening here. "
30 " being mad at someone for acting exactly the way you assume they’ll act is no one’s fault but your own. "
31 " They were wounded. They were victims. If only they had everything they'd ever wanted, then they'd be okay. But because they didn't, it was everyone else's fault. "
32 " But he’d loved only Eby. You didn't need a mirror to tell you that you were beautiful when you had proof like that. "
33 " There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter. "
34 " They made her think of her grandmere, who had lost her husband and two of her sons in the war. She had cried every day for a year, walking the same stretch of road from her home to the train station, waiting for them to come home. Her tears fell as black stones to the ground, and to this day those stones lodged in car tires and let all the air out slowly in a wail. "
35 " Kate picked up the carafe and poured some coffee into a cup. She added sugar and cream until it was the color of caramel. Her mom used to take her coffee like this. 'So sweet it could kiss you,' she used to say. "
36 " The trick to getting through life, she’d told him, is not to resent it when it isn’t exactly how you think it should be. "
37 " Old hands can hold memories of good things. "
38 " She'd spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She'd read enough books to know that they weren't all happy endings. "
39 " ...they all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, because she couldn't go with Devin back to her childhood. She could only stand here as an adult as the distance became greater and greater until, finally, there was an ocean between them. "
40 " If you don’t like the ending, you make up a new one. "