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41 " How we all make mistakes. And how sometimes those mistakes make our life richer. "
― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)
42 " I stomp through the water in a tight circle, kicking against the salt spray, wanting to pull the world apart piece by piece. "
43 " It’s me and the ocean, the tides and the lighthouse and wave after wave folding time to the shore. Unlike "
44 " Sometimes it’s those things you can’t touch that you need to hold on to the most. "
45 " It’s never been a perfect world. It’s never going to be. It’s going to be hard and scary and, if you’re lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good. "
46 " You just have to take the risk sometimes in order to find them. Step outside what’s comfortable and safe. "
47 " A place where no one lived and everyone visited. "
48 " Step outside what’s comfortable and safe. "
49 " Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on the most. "
50 " I hold my breath, waiting for her touch to bring me comfort. And then I realize that that's been my problem all along. Not only wanting comfort and security and safety, but looking to others to find it when I need to find it inside myself. "
51 " Maybe I just loved myself more. "
52 " From his lips my name curls around my ears. An invitation. "
53 " I can feel the possibility between us. "
54 " It's as though my mother's life has been cut in two and we each only hold half of her memories. And I realize that even combined we would never know the whole. She's greater than the sum of what we remember of her. The woman Harry knows and the one I know are just edges of something larger.I think about Elias and what he knows of my life in the Forest. And of Catcher and what he knows of my life in Vista. But does either of them know the whole of me? "