“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― The Gift
― The Gift
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Me Before You
― Me Before You
“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
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“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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