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21 " You don’t get to keep ignoring the past because you don’t like it. "
― Adam Silvera , More Happy Than Not
22 " When someone makes you happy, it's pretty impossible to cage the excitement. "
23 " We can't ever be together," he finished. "But I always want to know you, even if we're in the same room and you're just saying hi to me over and over again, I'll be perfectly happy. I'll always want to be sitting across from you. "
24 " From the shapes cast by the green paper lantern, you would never know that there were two boys sitting closely to one another trying to find themselves. You would only see shadows hugging, indiscriminate. "
25 " She pulls away - and then I see why: she's holding out her palm as a landing place for a firefly. It's easy to forget it's there when it's not glowing, until all of a sudden it comes back and surprises you; it reminds you of grief. "
26 " In that moment, I wish my existence were as simple as being set on fire and exploding in the sky. "
27 " Remember when we had trouble beating the last few levels of Zelda? We pooled our allowances and bought the walk-through guide to help us out.' He softly adds, 'You should've asked for help before cheating. "
28 " happiness comes again if you let it. "
29 " I want to be so happy that bad memories aren’t following me around like unwanted shadows. "
30 " This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn’t discover that spark until he’s an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face. "
31 " It’s weirdly possessive and obsessive to like someone; you want to learn all of his stories before anyone else and sometimes you want to be the only one who knows at all. "
32 " While we can’t always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we’ve been dealt. "
33 " I have to push ahead with the people who don't take the easy way out, who love me enough to stay alive even whe life sucks "
34 " She once promised me that nothing bad would ever happen, and then I grew up and everything went wrong, but I believe her this time because the worst thing that can happen is that nothing will happen at all. "
35 " But there is the happiness he promised, too. He loves me without being in love with me and that’s all I can ask of him. I don’t even need to hear him say it to believe it. "
36 " you can't always choose who you're going to be "
37 " But when I come back down, I remember something very crucial: Fuck, I have no idea how to have sex. "
38 " Imagine if we could glow to attract a mate instead of spraying on cologne that chokes everyone in a fifty-foot radius, "
39 " Every mistake I’ve made, every wrong I’ve repeated, every unhealed headache: I feel it all and more as the weight of my old world crushes me. If you looked inside me, I bet you’d find two different hearts beating for two different people, like the sun and moon up at the same time, a terrible eclipse I’m the only witness to.My worlds collided and I can’t get up. "
40 " You move on, you have to — but you don't write someone out. "