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Trust people’s actions, not their words. Don’t love anyone who isn’t ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don’t hold on to you. Don’t wait on anyone who’s in no rush to get to you.
“No, the deal is never anyone’s fault. But you control the way you play.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“I remember thinking your parents were unmatched—quiet, intellectual Julien and your vivacious, steel-spined maman. I thought they had nothing in common, but now I know how often love is like that.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“She also said to keep your passport renewed, to pair red wines with meats and whites with everything else, to find work that is fulfilling to your heart as well as your head, to never forget to fall in love whenever you can find it because love is nothing if not a matter of timing, and to chase the moon.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“some of us are born in the wrong place, the whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island, we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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