“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
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“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“When people say "there are other fish in the sea" I say "fuck you, she was my sea.”
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“But even we, with our supposed mastery of the English language, were not immune to the shortcoming of our vocabularies.
Words can only help you if you speak them.”
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Words can only help you if you speak them.”
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