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352 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2023
“i loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
“nothing lasts forever. not the good things, not the bad. so just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
“you only live once. and if you do
it right, once is all you need.”
“Isn’t it strange how the world works sometimes? It’s never a matter of time, but a matter of timing.”
“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
“You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
“Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways.”
“If you don’t fit in, fool everyone until you do.”
“There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.”
“I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed... to be reminded that I was human.”
“Because the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we.”
“New things are scary.”
“They don’t have to be.”
“How are they not?”
“Because some of my favorite things I haven’t even done yet.”
“Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway though a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stay around in the little ways. In the memory of a musical. In the smell of their perfume. In the sound of the rain, and the itch for adventure, and the yearning for that liminal space between one airport terminal and next.”
“Isn't it strange how the world works sometimes? It’s never a matter of time, but a matter of timing."