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1 " Logic ended where love began. "
― Joan He , The Ones We're Meant to Find
2 " None of us live without consequence. Our personal preferences are not truly personal. One person’s needs will deny another’s. Our privileges can harm ourselves and others. "
3 " The problem with oceans? They always seem smaller from the shore. "
4 " Because it was possible to love someone without fully understanding them. Possible to love parts of them, and not their whole. "
5 " And I think we have even less choice over the ones we’re meant to find. "
6 " Alone is an island. It’s an uncrossable sea, being too far from another soul, whereas lonely is being too close, in the same house yet separated by walls because we choose to be, and when I fall asleep, the pain of loneliness follows me as I dream of more walls. "
7 " Celia had loved the sea. Loved the whitecaps that foamed like milk, the waltz of sunlight atop the peaks. Kasey did not. The sea was a trillion strands of hair, infinitely tangled on the surface and infinitely dense beneath. It distorted time: Minutes passed like hours and hours passed like minutes out there. It distorted space, made the horizon seem within reach.And it was the perfect place for hiding secrets. "
8 " People wanted the quickest, easiest solutions. To solve their most immediate problems, they could steal from any future other than their own. "
9 " No one enters this world by choice. If we're lucky, we can choose how we leave. "
10 " Everyone lived at the expense of someone else. "
11 " Would people ever willingly give up their freedom for the good of others? "
12 " I love you. And even if you failed me,I'd never replace you "
13 " The dominos had been set centuries ago. One quake, and they all fell. "
14 " The only place Kasey still found Celia was in her dreams. "
15 " Even in a sea, every life rippled far beyond its end. "
16 " When I dream of her, it’s in vibrant color, unlike the gradients of gray of my monochrome days. But everything is hazy when I wake. The details merge. The colors fade. "
17 " Others might believe there’s power in a single step,” murmured Actinium, the cadence of his breath brushing Kasey’s ear. Her eyes widened. His warmth was real. So was the brace of his arm. The press of his chest. “But most choices are made before you reach the edge. "
18 " The ocean does not come poisoned. People poison it. "
19 " Most choices are made before you reach the edge. "
20 " Alone is an island. It’s an uncrossable sea, being too far from another world, whereas lonely is being too close, in the same house yet separated by walls because we choose to be, and when I fall asleep, the pain of loneliness follows me. "