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1 " The fifth thing I notice is that I'm noticing a lot of things. So I stop. ... I notice him some more. "
― Nicola Yoon , Instructions for Dancing
2 " With those outfits, you two do not deserve music. "
3 " The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t "
4 " Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though—the best times—it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close. "
5 " It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love. "
6 " Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it. "
7 " Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it. "
8 " Here's what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved. "
9 " Love is too small, too singular a word for the feeling it’s trying to hold. Just one word isn’t enough, so I want to use them all. Sometimes I think love is the reason language was invented. "
10 " You can miss the future with people who are still alive too. "
11 " Everyone loves to hate love triangles, but actually they’re great. They exist so the main character can choose between different versions of themselves: who they used to be, and who they’re still becoming. Side note: If you ever find yourself choosing between a vampire and a werewolf, choose the vampire. "
12 " Yes, falling in love requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don’t know what the ground looks like. "
13 " It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that. "
14 " To love is human. We can't help ourselves. "
15 " Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself. "
16 " Not everybody can dance good, but everybody can dance. "
17 " Mom said just because a thing ends doesn't make the thing any less real. Just because everything is different now doesn't mean we didn't love each other once. Maybe we will again. "
18 " It’s hard to completely hate someone who loves someone you love. "
19 " In darkness, there's still hope. Some hidden things in the places you can't see. Grief to me feels like an endless landscape of white light. No secrets. No surprises either. You can see clearly all you have lost. Everything that is no longer there. "
20 " How many versions of me will there be in this one lifetime? "