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Look what a story can do, those years showed me. Look how it can keep you stuck—patterns of longing, heartbreak, addiction—and look how it can liberate you.
“Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I understood then, the immense honor it is to hurt like she does. To have loved someone so much that the taste of maple syrup can make you cry and laugh at the same time.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“There aren't words vast or specific enough to capture the ecstasy and the ache and love and fear I feel just looking at him now.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“I'm on vacation. Vacations always end. It's the very fact that it's finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn't be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
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