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21 " Tabula rasa... time to hacer borrón y cuenta nueva, wipe the board clean," the singer chants.Wipe the board clean? I feel like my board is too clean, perpetually wiped bare. What I want is the opposite: a messy scrawl, constellations of indelible things that can't ever be washed away. "
― Gayle Forman , Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)
22 " I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic. "
23 " What's the big story?" he asks."We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres.""So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you? "
24 " When you're on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last "
25 " There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself. "
26 " Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives. "
27 " Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks. "
28 " Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth "
29 " And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy. "
30 " Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too. "
31 " Because 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. "
32 " I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow. "
33 " Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”“If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys. "
34 " Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from? "
35 " It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise. "
36 " I'm so tired of missing things I don't have. "
37 " By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital.But even so, I’ve kept looking.I’m still looking. "
38 " Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity? "
39 " Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that? "
40 " Somethings you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them. "