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“We can be all those things - good, bad, easy, and needy, okay or not on an endless cycle - and trust that the other will stay. Our circumstances are messy, but so is life. It doesn't mean that we can't love each other through it. We already are. - "The Ex Vows”
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“I’ve heard people talk about living in the moment, but right now I really understand it. I feel so viscerally here. And it’s not that the messiness of our lives doesn’t exist, it’s just that right now it doesn’t matter.”
― You, with a View
― You, with a View
“Georgia thinks you’re being a shithead, E,”
“Well, I didn’t mean it.”
“You said it but you don’t mean it?” Eli asks.
“I meant it,” I amend, “as a term of endearment.”
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“Well, I didn’t mean it.”
“You said it but you don’t mean it?” Eli asks.
“I meant it,” I amend, “as a term of endearment.”
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“I recognize the look in his eyes— the need to bookmark the moment so he can come back to it as a memory.”
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“We come up wrapped around each other, water rushing off our bodies, gasping for air. I feel exorcised and electrified. Not fixed, but better. Like maybe I'm not the sum of my mistakes, my failures, my fears. Like maybe it's not too late to fight for what I want, if I can admit it to myself. That it's okay to have hope, to try, even if it doesn't turn out the way I expect.”
― You, with a View
― You, with a View
“Sometimes I swear adulthood is staring at your phone and wondering which of your friends has enough time to deal with your latest emotional meltdown, then realizing none of them do.”
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“I recognize, too, that plenty of the things he loves about me aren't easy or pretty, and it makes me think of what I love best about Eli. It's not the perfect things, it's the real things.”
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“It's a privilege to have someone trust you enough to show you those pieces of themselves, the most vulnerable and tender, the least polished. It's a show of trust to let you see them first thing in the morning, in the middle of a panic attack, right after they've cried. To give you a shaky smile after a messy fight. To come back to you again and again with their heart in their hands. - "The Ex Vows”
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“I believe you when you tell me it will be okay. Just keep saying it so I don't forget.”
― You, with a View
― You, with a View
“A pattern emerges over the next few weeks, and slowly but surely, my new life simply becomes my life.”
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“It's not about being messy, it's about being honest with your mess - "The Ex Vows”
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“Sometimes I swear adulthood is staring at your phone and wondering which of your friends has enough time to deal with your latest emotional meltdown, then realizing non of them do.”
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“They sky is an endless, sun-bleached blue, the earth split into two beneath it. The canyons on either side are an ombre of red, pink, orange, and white, topped with trees. They're massive, jagged, and ancient, layered from millions of years of microscopic, life, those slow, steady moments of everyday routines, and the cracks made by life-changing things: love, death, other losses.
"God, I miss this."
I look over at Theo, at the wonder painted on his face. "What?"
He gestures out in front of us. "This. Traveling. Living. I don't know."
"You haven't been living?"
"I don't think so," he says, his eyes wandering over the view.
I don't think I have, either. It's certainly never felt like this.”
― You, with a View
"God, I miss this."
I look over at Theo, at the wonder painted on his face. "What?"
He gestures out in front of us. "This. Traveling. Living. I don't know."
"You haven't been living?"
"I don't think so," he says, his eyes wandering over the view.
I don't think I have, either. It's certainly never felt like this.”
― You, with a View
“I never wanted to think about the hard times with Eli in New York, but I stuffed the good moments even further down, because they hurt more.”
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“When I say I'm still in love with you, I mean the first time I saw you and right now. I mean every second in between.”
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“and I straddle his lap in the backseat. Maybe all of this should feel mundane after the adventures we had, but it doesn’t. It feels like life, one I could have and be proud of. One I’m actually having.”
― You, with a View
― You, with a View
“It’s a gift to know someone when you’re in love with them, and a curse when you’re out of it.”
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“He leans in to me, just a bit, like he heard my thoughts. It's such a small movement, would be nearly imperceptible if I wasn't so hungry for it. But I am, so I feel it as if he wrapped his arms around me, and though I know I should, I don't push him away.”
― You, with a View
― You, with a View
“For past me,
who didn’t give up,
and for future me,
who will look back on all of this and be so proud.”
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who didn’t give up,
and for future me,
who will look back on all of this and be so proud.”
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“We come up wrapped around each other, water rushing off our bodies, gasping for air. I feel exorcised and electrified. Not fixed, but better. Like maybe I'm not the sum of my mistakes, my failures, my fears. Like maybe it's not too late to fight for what I want, if I can admit it to myself. That it's okay to have hope, to try, even if it doesn't turn out the way I expect. - Noelle, page 191”
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