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“It was an impossible situation, a trick of society as a whole: force women to live at the mercy of whichever man wants them but shame them for anything they might do to get a man to want them.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Love is nothing but the prolonged agony of waiting for it to end. The fear of losing the ones we love makes us do selfish and foolish and cruel things. The only freedom is freedom from love, and once your love is gone, it can be perfect, crystallized in your memory forever.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Dead bodies are never going to bite you. They're never going to do anything to you. It's living things that hurt you.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“His smiles felt like secrets shared from across the room every time.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Every one of us deserves to die,' Dr. Beecham said. 'It is our only birthright.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye

“After all, in order to live happily, a man must know now and then a few moments of perfect blankness. Yet I was always exposed, always wide-eyed; even in sleep I did not cease to watch over myself, understanding nothing of my existence, growing crazy at the thought of not being able to stop being aware of myself...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye

“No," he says quietly. "In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You are in all of my happiest places.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another.

Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here. ”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You're like gravity. Everything keeps spinning, but my mind's always got one hand on you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“He's become my best friend the way the others did. Bit by bit, sand passing through an hour glass so slowly, it's impossible to pin down the moment it happens. When suddenly, more of my heart belongs to him than doesn't, and I know I'll never get a single grain back.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“How many universes do you think we’re together in?”

“Higher than either of us can count.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“He laughs against my cheek. I wish I could swallow the sound, that it would put down roots in my stomach and grow through me like a seed.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Like when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You are in all of my happiest places.
You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“So much of life is waiting for more of him, and even that torture is bliss.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“the feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“It reminds me that as long as the lemon trees grow, hope will never die.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“Might. What a word. It holds infinite possibilities of a life that could have been. So many options stacked one on top of the other, like cards waiting for a player to pick and choose.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“Bury me before I bury you" I did.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“Death is an excellent teacher.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“Survivor's skin is a remorse we are cursed to wear forever.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“When I die, I'm going to tell God everything.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“Know that even in death, youʼre my life.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“He and I are owed a love story that doesn't end in tragedy.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“I nod and hold on to this moment, tucking it in my heart to revisit when the sadness comes back.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow