28 Summers
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This cottage, this stretch of beach, this island, has imprinted itself on his consciousness, like a watermark on fine paper.
“Falling for a person isn’t a process. You can’t plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. Love strikes in single moments. Anywhere. Anytime. Some day you catch them gardening in the sun, or singing dreadfully in the shower, and you think, Oh, I could spend all my life with you”
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“Because I want you to be happy. With or without me, whatever it takes.” Theo sighs. “That’s the difference between wanting someone and loving them.”
― A Million Worlds with You
― A Million Worlds with You
“I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.”
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that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.”
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“Songs and movies tell us that when you meet the one you love, the planet stops spinning, the clouds open up, and your heart begins to sing. Reality is messier than that. The truth is, we meet new people all the time, but we can never tell exactly what they might mean to us. You never know who you’ll forget, or who you’ll need forever.”
― A Million Worlds with You
― A Million Worlds with You
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