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“Love is visible—it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“We have this one life. But all the roads not taken, all those other lives we might have lived, are a part of it too. Yearning—that terrible, beautiful gaping yawn of want for a person, a place, a chance, a change, or something we can’t name—leaves craters, spaces for us to hold more of life. Saudade might be a strictly Portuguese word, but aching want is a universal condition.”
― Diana Marcum, The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

“Knowledge is always a kind of magic, I suppose.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“Life is strange. Always thinking that this one thing is going to make you happy. Because then you get it. And then you’re maybe not as happy as you imagined you would be. Because every day is just every day. Like the happiness becomes so big you have no choice but to live inside it. Until you can no longer see or feel it. And so you start to fixate on something else.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People