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1 " Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk. "
― Gayle Forman , Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)
2 " Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion. "
3 " It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise. "
4 " Accidents. It's all about the accidents. "
5 " I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me. "
6 " One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one "
7 " ...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines. "
8 " My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself. "
9 " When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium. "
10 " It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate. "
11 " Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was. "
12 " Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. "
13 " If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium. "
14 " And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it. "
15 " Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith. "
16 " Go Big or Go Home "
17 " I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that "
18 " ...I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one. "
19 " It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem "
20 " I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was. "
