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1 " It was what Joseph had missed most during the war, all the small, scattered pieces of the precious and luminous ordinary, evidence that life insists on continuing. "
― Marisa de los Santos , I'll Be Your Blue Sky (Love Walked In, #3)
2 " I am one of those people who believes that at least half of love is simply paying attention. "
3 " Back when we were in love, even after we’d been together for years, that smile never stopped taking me by surprise. It was found money, an arrowhead, a shooting star, a great, shiny stroke of luck every single time. "
4 " Honestly, the idea of wanting to spend time with people one did not love absolutely mystified her. "
5 " ... I laughed simply because being this particular person in this particular world at this particular moment was cause for joy... "
6 " The Antioch Beach library was like something out of a good dream, if you're the kind of person who dreams about libraries, which I am ... "
7 " Number six: Zach never tailgates, ever, no matter how slowly the car in front of him is going. Because the driver in front of you could be anyone--an organ donor, a war hero, a man who's just lost his best friend, a kid with a new license doing her best, said Cornelia. Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes. "
8 " returned wedding gifts and penned endless notes of apology to the givers and to all our would-be-turned-would-not-be wedding guests, and if I say that I felt every word of those notes carve themselves into my skin like in that scary Dolores Umbridge detention scene in the fifth Harry Potter, I’m exaggerating, but only a little. "
9 " Cornelia—who was in town dropping off her children at her parents’ house for a week of, as she put it, “unfettered joy, limitless pie, and irreversible spoiling "
10 " Oh, this here and now, this particular snapshot fragment of forever. "
11 " Cornelia pulled love around me like a coat, tugged it shut, and did up the buttons, as if I belonged to her. And so I did. "
12 " For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world. "
13 " You're his blue sky. When everything else is darkness. But is he yours? "
14 " Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes. "
15 " And then, one day, Edith gave me a house. "
16 " Talking turned out to be Louise’s talent. If talking were a sport, Louise would’ve been a marathoner. "
17 " You must promise to give yourself entirely to someone or something because that's who you are. You are a genius at devoting yourself; it's what makes you happiest. "
