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1 " I don’t know what I even expected. A big final act kiss? A scorching rejection? It’s the kind of thing that makes sense in movies but it falls apart when it’s real. When it’s Ben. When his bedroom floor is covered with moving boxes. When he’s telling me to hang out as long as I want to but not begging me to stay. I wonder how many love stories end like this. "
― Becky Albertalli , Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
2 " People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe itquiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the achenever quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurking in the background, ready toflare back up the minute you let your guard down. "
3 " And all I can think is: sometimes what-ifs come true. "
4 " That man is a goddamn bunion on the foot of my life. "
5 " Something about Ben Alejo's face makes my brain light up. "
6 " Todo relacionamento é assim. Você começa com nada e talvez acabe conquistando tudo. "
7 " And you”—I prod his arm—“need to stop rereading that YA book where everyone dies at the end. "
8 " I just want to make you happy. But I'll be there when you're not happy, too. If you're sad, I'll sit inside it with you. I know I'm going to mess up sometimes, too, but I promise to say sorry a lot, because that's what people do when they want something to work. "
9 " Sometimes happily ever afters aren’t about your happiness at all. "
10 " Just because someone says they love you doesn’t mean they’ll never say it to someone else. "
11 " Here’s to do-overs, right?” “Here’s to us, "
12 " Ben shoots me a quick sideways smile, but it’s cool, because who even needs lungs? Why are we all so obsessed with breathing? "
13 " Then we just kind of stare at each other for a minute. Or ten minutes. Or ten hours. I don’t know how to measure time when Ben’s looking at me. "
14 " Happiness is tricky when it comes to the person who used to make you happy. "
15 " because he just loves Taylor’s music, probably because her music is fucking amazing and she’s a goddius, which is a new word I invented just now that means both genius and goddess, "
16 " People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe it quiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the ache never quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurking in the background, ready to flare back up the minute you let your guard down. "
17 " world doesn’t stop for heartbreak. "
18 " O amor não precisa ser assim. Não tem que ser chamativo, esbanjar sentimentalidade ou parecer maior que tudo na vida. O amor pode ser uma pilha de roupas lavadas e dobradas e um tanque de gasolina cheio, ou seu namorado estável e fofo passando uma noite extra na universidade para ajudá-lo a fazer as malas. "
19 " You could launch us to opposite ends of this solar system, and we'd find our way back to each other. "