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“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“We were predictable to each other, like two halves of the same brain.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary