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61 " Couples in love believe they'll always be in love. It's one of the ways you know you're in love in the first place" -Evie "
― Nicola Yoon , Instructions for Dancing
62 " 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" -Evie "
63 " 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" -Evie "
64 " It occurs to me that an unhappy ending for one person can mean a happy beginning for another...I think about the way we're all just starring in our own stories" -Evie "
65 " 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." -Evie "
66 " Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself" -Evie "
67 " I’m screwing this up. What I’m saying is I finally figured out that endings don’t matter nearly as much as I thought they did.” “What matters, then?” I sit back down. “Beginnings are nice, but the best part is right now, in the wide-open middle. I made fun of you, but you were right this whole time. I should live in the moment and all that other stuff. "
68 " 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" -Dad "
69 " 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. "
70 " Remove this quote from your collection“I gave you the power to see love. The heartbreak is just one part of it. It’s not the all of it. Why did you only focus on the ending?”“Because it’s the most important part.”“Is it?” she asks. “It wasn’t supposed to be a curse, Evie. It was supposed to be a gift. "