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When Harry Met Sally. “I love this movie,” she mumbled around her spoon.
“I imagined them all thinking it was worth it. Telling me how much they loved me. All my life, when I thought of my future, that was what I pictured. Not a career. The things I thought would come with it. Happiness, love, safety. And that dream had been enough for a long time. What was school if not a chance to earn your worth? To prove, again and again, that you were measurably good. One more deal I struck with a disinterested universe: If I'm good enough, I'll be happy. I'll be loved. I'll be safe.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“He’s a golden boy. I’m a girl whose life has been drawn in shades of gray.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“How many universes do you think we’re together in?”
“Higher than either of us can count.”
― Happy Place
“Higher than either of us can count.”
― Happy Place
“They all do, I think. You are in all of my happiest places. You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“What can you feel? Sunlight, everywhere. Not just on my bare shoulders or the crown of my head but inside me too, the irresistible warmth that comes only from being in the exact right place with the exact right people.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
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