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161 " I’m overwhelmed by the stunning incredibility of the truth. "
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , One True Loves
162 " Good things don't wait until you're ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you're almost there. "
163 " I don't think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. "
164 " A conversational roadblock. "
165 " I had predicated my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I'd come to realize that extraordinary is everywhere. "
166 " Maybe he stopped loving me somewhere along the way, gave up on me. "
167 " I just wanted to stand, high up on the earth, unencumbered by the safety of walls, floors, and ceilings. I wanted to stand high enough that if I fell, it’d kill me. This is not the same thing as wanting to die. "
168 " True love doesn't always last. It doesn't always have to be for a lifetime. And that doesn't mean it's not true love. "
169 " The whole beginning of my life is this man. "
170 " You read all the way through to the end of one, only to find out that the husband dies. You hurl the book across the room, breaking the bedside lamp. When your mom comes home that night, you tell her what happened. You ask her for books to read where no one dies.Two days later, you find both of your parents in the living room with a pile of novels on the coffee table. They are skimming through them one by one, making sure every character lives to the end. That night, you have a new stack of books to read and you open up the first one, confident it won’t break you down.It is the first time in a long time that you have felt safe. "
171 " Just because something isn't meant to last a lifetime doesn't mean it wasn't meant to be. "
172 " You know that you will never truly be free of the grief. You know that it is something you must learn to live with, something you manage. "
173 " Programei minha vida a partir da ideia de querer conhecer os lugares mais extraordinários, mas acabei chegando à conclusão de que qualquer lugar poderia ser extraordinário. "
174 " Your parents don’t understand why you’re asking and you can’t quite explain it to them. You just say, “This one is tainted.” But what you mean is that you feel like it absorbed your suffering. You know it sounds crazy but you believe your pain is in the mattress and you don’t want to absorb it back into your own body.You know it’s not that simple. But it feels like it is. "
175 " You feel better. Freer.You realize this is called superstition.You’re OK with that.You know that you will never truly be free of the grief. You know that it is something you must learn to live with, something you manage. "
176 " I think you forsake the people you loved before, just a little bit, when you fall in love again. But it doesn't erase anything. It doesn't change what you had. You don't even leave it so far behind that you can't instantly remember, that you can't pick it up like a book you read a long time ago and remember how it felt then. "
177 " I didn’t know anything about growing apart. I only knew being ripped apart. But I imagined it felt like a tree root slowly growing so big and strong that it breaks through the sidewalk. “I’m "
178 " Eu poderia me esforçar para me adaptar a ele. Ele poderia se esforçar para se adaptar a mim. Mas o amor verdadeiro não é isso. "
179 " ... it’s time for you to start to meet people. Any people. New people. "
180 " Sou quem sou por ter te amado um dia”, ele diz. “Eu também sou quem sou por ter te amado um dia”, eu digo. "