“But the first time I saw you. Rio. I took that down to the gardens. I pressed it into the leaves of a silver maple and recited it to the Waterloo Vase. It didn’t fit in any rooms.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“Never tell me the odds.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
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