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21 " Their intentions may be good, but their judgment isn’t. "
― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)
22 " I think you feel more deeply than most people ever do; you just don’t know how to show it. You always feel—out of step. You’re not like the people around you, and they know it as well as you do. And you think it’s because something’s wrong with you, so you retreat deeper into the background. That just means people don’t get to know the real you.You’re lonely. You’ve been lonely so long I think you’ve forgotten there’s any other way to be. "
23 " His gray eyes met mine. "It doesn't matter where I go. I'll still be yours. "
24 " People tend to find their destiny, no matter what world they're in. "
25 " I love you." "And I love you. In any world, in any universe." His smile was crooked. "This world is enough." Then he became more serious. "Sometimes I look at you, and I think - if I didn't know we shared a destiny, if I hadn't seen the proof for myself, I'd never believe this was real. That you could love me as much as I love you. "
26 " I can tell he's kissing me this desperately because he thinks it might be the last time. The way I'm kissing him should tell him it's not. Not even close. Ten thousand skies, and a million worlds, and it still wouldn't be enough for me to share with you. Nothing less than forever will do. "
27 " My love of creativity is one of my constants, a pole star amid the many constellations of possibilities and personalities that make up all the people I could be. "
28 " People talk about their heart being torn in two, but I always thought it was a metaphor, no more. But it really feels like that, like something precious at the core of me is being ripped into halves, neither of them complete. "
29 " A lot of people say stuff like that about tragedies only because they think they’re supposed to, "
30 " What most people call instinct in people is really the interpretation of small subconscious cues. "
31 " Sometimes our hearts are wilder than we know. "
32 " I like that it's a mystery -- that the universe always knows something we won't. "
33 " I love you completely, don't you see? I even want the worst part of you because it's still a part of you." I press one hand against his chest, as if it could send everything I feel straight into his heart. "I want you when it's crazy, when it's frightening, when it's impossible, because there's nothing within you that could hurt me half as much as not having you. "
34 " We learn about people by observing their choices. "
35 " My knowledge of computers begins and ends with hit power switch, magic box comes on. "
36 " I've never understood how anybody could be in love with two people at the same time. Your heart can only sing one song at a time. "
37 " When you have a child with someone, you're bound to them forever. That can be beautiful and miraculous, and yet a burden, too - the knowledge that your life is intertwines with another's for all time. It transforms your relationship in ways I can't begin to describe.Before you take that step with someone, you must be ready to accept the destruction of the life you had together beforehand - and have faith that what you two create afterward can be even greater. "
38 " Those moments make me feel like I'm melting - like we're fusing together, ceasing to be two separate people, turning into one. "
39 " We're brought together by a power greater than either of us. Something bigger than our own world. "
40 " It's hope that makes us believe in miracles that haven't come to pass. Hope that crushes us with the unbearable truth. "