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“Ask: if flexing is being able to say the most in the fewest number of words, is there a greater flex than love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“What was real was the dance of light in her eyes and the quick current of our blood.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Until the stars burn out, and all worlds end, until the planets collide, and the suns wither, until the moon’s light dies, and the rivers and seas run out, until I grow so old that my memories fade away, and my tongue cannot say your name, until my heart beats for the last time, only then .. will I maybe stop, maybe.”
― Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

“She had loved his face the way she had loved the brightness of the moon and the cold blue water of the sea”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Life is very long unless it is not.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

“People say that life keeps moving, but they don't mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you. Just for you and your girl. The world stops spinning and just lets you two lie there. Feels like it, anyway. Sometimes. If you're lucky.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“But it's strange, isn't it?" Eri said.
"What is?"
"That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“See, there’s three lights now where there was only two before.’ I look out across the sea. There, the two lights are blinking as before, but with another, steady light, shining in between. ‘Can you see it?’ he says. ‘I can,’ I say. ‘It’s there.’ And that is when he puts his arms around me and gathers me into them as though I were his own.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“Just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That's all. But what the hell else is life made of?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“To my queen, forever is a mighty long time, but I knew you before I met you, so now we're free. You didn't have a home coming into this world, but you're home now. You're home now.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“It was a nothing that felt like an everything.”
― Douglas Stuart, Un lugar para Mungo

“To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What is better than believing you are heading towards love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“... maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life just to figure out a small part of it."

"I don't know. I think maybe I've been wasting my time, just doing nothing."

"I don't think so. It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Meeting someone on a summer's evening is like giving a dead flame new life.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Your few days together have been spent doing nothing really, which is something, is an intimacy in itself.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Almost nothing counts more than the person who shows up.”
― Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

“Six or twelve,” he sometimes said when he was depressed, which wasn’t all the time but often enough that I recognized a blue mood when it was settling in. “That’s your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“He sniffed the can with it's familiar yeast smell. He could feel the men watching him nurse it, but he was wary of the drink. He had seen the awful sadness it contained, just beneath the happy foam.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn’t know what I was talking about, or know someone who’s gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen. And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Until you stop skim-reading your friend or lover or family member, and instead read them more closely, as a never-ending story. A story whose plot you cannot control, or rewrite, or ever fully finish.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“Then he surprised me by laying his head in my lap, reaching for my arms and closing them around himself like a blanket.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You came here to speak of what is means to love your best friend. Ask: if flexing is being able to say the most in the fewest number of words, is there a greater flex than love? Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go, a direct gaze.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“you have a big enough why, you can endure almost any how.”
― Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City

“Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster