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41 " I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why this happened. "
― Katie Kacvinsky , First Comes Love (First Comes Love, #1)
42 " What do you want to see?" he asks. What I always want to see. "A place I'll never forget. "
43 " I crossed a line by making his family's personal business my own. But isn't that what friendship is? Isn't that what love is? It's more than caring and laughing and inspiring. It's about taking hurt and anger off people's shoulders and helping to carry the weight. It's more important to love people on the worst days than their best. "
44 " Life's too short to hold back forgiveness. "
45 " I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love. "
46 " Her mom showed her that when life hands you tragedy, you can do two things with it. You can let it kick you down and make you weak and turn you into a victim. Or you can have hope that you’ll get through it and there’s still something amazing to live for.Dylan tells me victims don’t make it very far in life. "
47 " My idea of perfect is being too busy laughing at yourself to care what you look like "
48 " Sleep doesn’t come to people who have a heavy apology resting on their heart. Sleep knows better. "
49 " I'm fine with being alone," he insists. "I like the company I keep. Most people need constant distractions, because if they slow down long enough to evaluate their lives, it makes them internally combust. Like if you folded them inside out, you'd find a huge monster inside. A train wreck. "
50 " Until you realize love's the only thing worth living for in the first place "
51 " Hey, God, did I do something to piss you off? Because I'm starting to think you enjoy twisting the knife in my heart every chance you get. If too much happiness dares to encroach on my life, does some siren go off up there? Uh-oh, Gray's too happy right now. We can't have that. Time to shit all over his life again. "
52 " if you never leave where you came from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are. "
53 " It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her. "
54 " I asked Lila, the owner, what the secret ingredient was, she told me it was happiness. She said when you put happiness into what you cook, it tastes so much better. She told me when you put happiness into your job and your relationships, they grow. If you're not enjoying what you're doing or who you're doing it with, it won't turn out, she told me. "
55 " I spent so much time carefully packing up my past. Sealing it shut. Storing it away. Seeing Brandon makes that box fall open and all the memories spill out at my feet. "
56 " I think everyone's caught up in these narrow-minded worlds and they think their world exists in the center of the universe. Relationships only happen when it's convenient. You have to walk on eggshells for people because that's about how strong they are these days. And you can't confront people, because if you do, that brittle shell of confidence will crack. So we all become passive cowards that carry a fake smile wherever we go because God forbid you let your guard down long enough for people to see your life isn't perfect. That you have a few flaws. Because who wants to see that? "
57 " someone's taught me to expect more out of people and never to settle. "
58 " How am I?"[...]"Sometimes it's a rush, like skydiving and other times it's just a smooth ride, like floating in the middle of a calm lake. It's like standing next to a hot fire that's shooting sparks, or walking on the sun and then rolling in the snow. It's like plate tectonics and hailstorms and lighting and earthquakes and hurricane-force winds all happening at once but then everything suddenly stops moving and your mind draws a blank and everything's really peaceful. It's like your mind explodes and all that's left inside your body is heat. "
59 " I wonder if it's okay to let a single person be the center of your life. "
60 " Gray yells that he can't just let me go because you don't give up on the people you love, but maybe I need to lose someone in order to understand that."You're dreaming," he says. "Call me when you decide to wake up. "