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“Why have we waited so long?"

I didn't know the answer. "Maybe because what we want hasn't been invented yet."

"Maybe because it doesn't exist."

"Which is why I dread how this ends."

"Good night," she said, turning her back to me, while I wrapped my arms around her.

"I know one thing, though," she said without turning around.

"What?"

"This doesn't end, whatever happens. Never, never ends." I tightened my arms around her. "Star love, my love, star love. It may not live but it never dies. It's the only thing I'm taking with me, and you will too, when the time comes.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“There's no 'rational grounds' for anything I care about.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I know this isn’t what you want to hear. But sometimes the person we’re looking for doesn’t turn out to be the kind of person we hoped they’d be. That doesn’t mean it’s not them. All right? The last thing you want is to let yourself get distracted by your emotions.”
― Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

“This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name