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“Mom, why didn't anybody tell me that love hurts so much?"
"If I had told you, would it have changed anything?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles