“Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though—the best times—it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“You can miss the future with people who are still alive too.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“finding someone you can laugh with when everything hurts—was the stuff happily ever afters were made of.”
― Before I Let Go
― Before I Let Go
“Here's what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“It was beautiful. But it was sad too. Both things, and at the same time. I don’t know why so much of life is like that.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
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