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“Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile.
And then she punched him in the nuts.”
― Bone Gap
And then she punched him in the nuts.”
― Bone Gap
“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
“I don't want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”
― Girls of Paper and Fire
― Girls of Paper and Fire
“When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes - often, in fact - you can't make it better. I'm reminded of something my supervisor said to me when I was a student chaplain: "Don't just do something. Stand there.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.”
― The Upside of Unrequited
― The Upside of Unrequited
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