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1 " Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there’s still space for sweet things. "
― Corey Ann Haydu , The Careful Undressing of Love
2 " I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare. "
3 " We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things. "
4 " I can’t quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them. "
5 " Love is insanity, apparently. "
6 " Love is something you have or don’t have. Love is like a fever. "
7 " It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not. "
8 " Sometimes words I think are small come out big. "
9 " On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special. "
10 " We don’t smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn’t yours sometimes does. "
11 " We are LornaCruzCharlotteDelilahIsla and we aren’t afraid of love, even if we’re supposed to be. "
12 " Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city. "
13 " It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something. "
14 " I hate the way the world feels when love is gone "
15 " Death always feels far away from life, until it isn’t. "
16 " Everyone else’s Minute of remembering is over, but ours stretches on and on. It doesn’tend. "
17 " This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up. "
18 " Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe. "
19 " If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall. "
20 " The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table. "