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“It’s not the absence of fun, it’s the absence of fear.’ Keep this in mind when you are looking for someone to share your life with – someone who’ll bring fun without fear. Someone whose company you love. Someone who makes you feel alive and safe and understood. Those are the specifics you should be looking for. The rest doesn’t matter so much.”
― Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom

“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it’s your whole soul.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Your life is yours. It doesn’t belong to anyone else. I wanted to know what it would mean to live life on my own terms.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“I think you keep meeting people who haven’t got their yellow light on, but they behave in a way that makes you think they have, because they want a trip with you.”
― Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom