“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“I guess my point is that I do believe in love. Really. I'm just not convinced that kind of love could ever happen to me.”
― This Time It's Real
― This Time It's Real
“To lose something you never had can be just as painful—because it is the hope of having it that you lose. The hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“But aren’t small things exactly what friendships are made up of? Frayed string bracelets and late-night texts and compilations of your favorite songs? When you take those things away, what do you have left?”
― This Time It's Real
― This Time It's Real
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